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The surf guru : stories / Doug Dorst.

Dorst, Doug. (Author).

Summary:

A collections of twelve short works features tales about an aging surfing champion who meditates on the sport's new generation, an acerbic botanist who draws uproarious biographical sketches, and two drifters who share misadventures from their dilapidated car.

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  • ISBN: 9781594487613
  • ISBN: 1594487618
  • Physical Description: pages ; cm
  • Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2010.

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Formatted Contents Note:
Surf guru -- Dinaburg's cake -- La fiesta de San Humberto el menor -- Vikings -- Jumping jacks -- Twelve portraits of Dr. Gachet -- Monkeys howl, the hagfish feast -- Splitters -- Candidate in bloom -- What is mine will know my face -- Little reptiles -- Astronauts.

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Genre: Short stories.
Fiction.

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