Against the water : a surfing champion's inspirational journey to Olympic glory / Owen Wright.
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TextPublisher: Cammeray, NSW : Simon & Schuster, 2023Copyright date: ©2023Description: 321 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : colour illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781761106576 (paperback)Subject(s): Wright, O. (Owen) | Wright, O. (Owen) -- Biography | Wright, Owen | Wright, Owen -- Family | Surfing -- Australia -- Biography | Olympic athletes -- Australia -- Biography | Brain -- Wounds and injuries -- Patients -- Rehabilitation | Surfing -- Competitions -- Australia | Brain damage -- Patients -- Rehabilitation -- Australia | Surfers -- Australia -- BiographyGenre/Form: Autobiographies. DDC classification: 797.320994 | 797.32092 Summary: Against the Water carries the reader back to Wright's boyhood in the tiny town of Culburra, where his father, determined to raise champions, turned family life into a kind of boot camp. While eccentric, his father's methods bore fruit: the Wrights of Culburra would become Australian surfing royalty. Owen's story lays bare the complex relationship with his father - the adoration, the fight for independence, the fallings out, and the reconciliations. Told in a spare, intimate style, Against the Water is the moving account of an athlete who refused to accept that his best days were behind him and raises fundamental questions around family and competition. What, ultimately, is our duty to our children? At what point does bravery become folly? And how much should we sacrifice for the sake of another?
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Against the Water carries the reader back to Wright's boyhood in the tiny town of Culburra, where his father, determined to raise champions, turned family life into a kind of boot camp. While eccentric, his father's methods bore fruit: the Wrights of Culburra would become Australian surfing royalty. Owen's story lays bare the complex relationship with his father - the adoration, the fight for independence, the fallings out, and the reconciliations. Told in a spare, intimate style, Against the Water is the moving account of an athlete who refused to accept that his best days were behind him and raises fundamental questions around family and competition. What, ultimately, is our duty to our children? At what point does bravery become folly? And how much should we sacrifice for the sake of another?
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