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03071aam a2200469 i 4500 001 77FC5C86FF9A11E9A2D37E2597128E48 003 SILO 005 20191105010136 008 190411s2019 iau b s000 0aeng c 010 $a 2019010730 020 $a 1609386795 020 $a 9781609386795 035 $a (OCoLC)1098217113 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d BDX $d YDX $d OCLCF $d OCLCQ $d YDX $d OCL $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PS3623.A8688 $b Z46 2019 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23 100 1 $a Waters, Don, $d 1974- $e author. 245 10 $a These boys and their fathers : $b a memoir / $c Don Waters. 264 1 $a Iowa City : $b University of Iowa Press, $c [2019] 300 $a 238 pages ; $c 23 cm 520 $a "In 2010, Don Waters set out to write a magazine story about a surfing icon who'd 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. Spindrift touches on Waters' boyhood with his single mother and her string of dysfunctional men, but it quickly expands into a gripping account of the life of a 1930's pulp writer, also named Don Waters, with whom Waters gets obsessed. This man and his wife raised a child on a sailboat during the Great Depression. This adventurous and picturesque vision of nuclear family life becomes more vivid to Waters than his own childhood. But as Don Waters delves deeply into this story--hiring an investigator to help him get to the bottom of the gaps--he winds up on the other side of fantasy, smack in the center of another family's hard truths. This wildly original book blends memoir, investigative reporting, and fiction to sort out difficult aspects of family, masculinity, and what it means to be a father. With striking honesty and empathy, Spindrift lays bare the daunting and messy task of finding meaning in an evasive world"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 600 10 $a Waters, Don, $d 1974- $x Childhood and youth. 600 10 $a Waters, Don. 650 0 $a Fathers $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Fatherless families $z United States. 650 0 $a Masculinity $z United States. 650 7 $a Fatherless families. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00921864 650 7 $a Fathers. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00921865 650 7 $a Masculinity. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01011027 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919896 776 08 $i Online version: $a Waters, Don, 1974- $t These boys and their fathers. $d Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2019] $z 9781609386801 $w (DLC) 2019019533 941 $a 4 952 $l GYPE631 $d 20240626020202.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20220706013120.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317023259.0 952 $l CBPF522 $d 20200724011547.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=77FC5C86FF9A11E9A2D37E2597128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search