These Boys and Their Fathers: A Memoir

by Don Waters

Book Overview

In 2010, Don Waters set out to write a magazine story about a surfing icon who had known his absentee father. It was an attempt to find a way of connecting to a man he never knew. He didn't imagine that the story would become a years-long quest to understand a man who left behind almost nothing except for a self-absorbed autobiography for his abandoned son.

These Boys and Their Fathers touches on Waters's early life with his single mother--and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1609386795
• ISBN13: 9781609386795
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: University of Iowa Press
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"