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Cocaine + Surfing: A Sordid History of Surfings Greatest Love Affair
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From the author of Welcome to Paradise, Now Go To Hell, a finalist for the PEN Center USA Award for NonfictionIts no surprise that surfers like to party. The 196070s image, bolstered by Tom Wolfe and Big Wednesday, was one of mild outlawstanned boys refusing to grow up, spending their days drinking beer and smoking joints on the beach in between mindless hours in the water.But in the 1980s, as surf brands morphed into multibilliondollar companies, the derelict portrait began to harm business. The external surf image became Kelly Slater and Laird Hamilton, beacons of health, vitality, bravery, and cleanliving.Internally, though, surfing had moved on from booze and weed to its hearts true home, its souls twin flame: cocaine. The rise of cocaine in American popular culture as the choice of rich, white elites was matched, then quadrupled, within surf culture. The parties got wilder, the nights stretched longer, the stories became more ridiculously unbelievable. And there has been no stopping, no dip in passion.It is a forbidden love, and few, if any, outside the surf world know about this particular rhapsody. Drug use is kept very wellhidden, even from insiders, but evidence of its psychosis rears its head from time to time in the form of overdoses, bar fights, surf contests, murders, and coverups.Cocaine + Surfing draws back the curtain on a hoppedup, sometimessexy, sometimesdeadly relationship and uses cocaine as the vehicle to expose and explain the utterly absurd surf industry to outsiders.
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