On a Wave
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In this wry and exhilarating coming-of-age story, a prizewinning poet poignantly looks back at his adolescent surfing years.
As a disenchanted, unemployed English professor, Thad Ziolkowski decides one day to sneak away from his temp job in Manhattan and catch a wave off a dingy Queens shoreline. In the meager cold waves, he contemplates how he could have possibly become a semidepressed, chain-smoking, aimless man when, for a few shining years of his boyhood, he was invincible. His lapsed love affair with the ocean begins amid the late-sixties counterculture in coastal Florida. After his parents' divorce, nine-year-old Thad escapes from his difficult family—notably a new brooding and explosive stepfather—by heading for the thrilling, uncharted waters of the local beach. In the embrace of the surf, he is able to stay offshore for years, until his life is upended once again, this time by a double tragedy that deposits him at a crossroads between a life in the waves and a life on land. Lyrical and disarmingly funny, On a Wave is a glorious portrait of youth that reminds readers of Tobias Wolff's This Boy's Life and Frank Conroy's Stop-Time.
"A sharp, self-conscious portrait of the artist as a young grommet." — The New Yorker
As a disenchanted, unemployed English professor, Thad Ziolkowski decides one day to sneak away from his temp job in Manhattan and catch a wave off a dingy Queens shoreline. In the meager cold waves, he contemplates how he could have possibly become a semidepressed, chain-smoking, aimless man when, for a few shining years of his boyhood, he was invincible. His lapsed love affair with the ocean begins amid the late-sixties counterculture in coastal Florida. After his parents' divorce, nine-year-old Thad escapes from his difficult family—notably a new brooding and explosive stepfather—by heading for the thrilling, uncharted waters of the local beach. In the embrace of the surf, he is able to stay offshore for years, until his life is upended once again, this time by a double tragedy that deposits him at a crossroads between a life in the waves and a life on land. Lyrical and disarmingly funny, On a Wave is a glorious portrait of youth that reminds readers of Tobias Wolff's This Boy's Life and Frank Conroy's Stop-Time.
"A sharp, self-conscious portrait of the artist as a young grommet." — The New Yorker
In this wry and exhilarating coming-of-age story, a prizewinning poet poignantly looks back at his adolescent surfing years.
As a disenchanted, unemployed English professor, Thad Ziolkowski decides one day to sneak away from his temp job in Manhattan and catch a wave off a dingy Queens shorelin...
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Thad Ziolkowski has a Ph.D. in English literature from Yale University. He is a widely published poet, and his articles and essays have appeared in The Village Voice, Artforum, Index, and Travel & Leisure. He directs the writing program at Pratt Institute and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Thad Ziolkowski has a Ph.D. in English literature from Yale University. He is a widely published poet, and his articles and essays have appeared in The Village Voice, Artforum, Index, and Travel & Leisure. He directs the writing program at Pratt Institute and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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