Norman Ollestad (1) (1967–)
Auteur de Survivre à tout prix
Pour les autres auteurs qui s'appellent Norman Ollestad, voyez la page de désambigüisation.
Œuvres de Norman Ollestad
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Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Ollestad, Norman
- Date de naissance
- 1967-05-30
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Études
- University of California, Los Angeles
- Professions
- writer
- Relations
- Ollestad, Norman (father)
Ollestad, Norman Doris (mother) - Courte biographie
- Norman Ollestad (born May 30, 1967) is an American author of contemporary fiction and non-fiction. Ollestad is also an avid surfer and skier. On February 19, 1979, he was in a plane crash with his father; his father's girlfriend, Sandra; and the pilot of a chartered Cessna. Sandra was 30. Norman's father was 43. Norman was 11. By the end of the 9-hour ordeal, Norman was the only survivor. He wrote about the tragedy in his 2009 bestseller Crazy For The Storm: A Memoir Of Survival. He has also written a novel, 'Driftwood', which was released in 2006. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Ollestad
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 3
- Membres
- 719
- Popularité
- #35,295
- Évaluation
- 3.4
- Critiques
- 49
- ISBN
- 39
- Langues
- 6
First, the author decides to use this alternating chapter format that I don't think did anything for the pacing. One chapter would be about the plane crash and the quest for survival. The next chapter would be backstory, which focused primarily on the relationship between young Norman and his father.
Second, while it should be really interested to read about how an 11 year old survives on a freezing cold mountain -- it just wasn't. The emotion isn't there. There's a lot of details that physically describe the mountain in an effort to help the reader picture the action - - but I never actually got a good, clear mental image.
The best part of the book (for me) was the parenting questions it raised. Norman's father had a huge zest for life that he clearly wanted to share with his son. And his method of sharing was cajoling little Norman to do some pretty risky stuff, like back country skiing, surfing, etc. The book raises questions of how this style of parenting played into Norman's survival of the plane crash and whether it really is a good way to parent.
Norman draws his own conclusions and that provides the theme that ties the whole book together. The content on this book was interesting enough to keep me reading, but the writing really didn't do it justice compared to other survival stories I've read. Just a ho-hum for me overall.… (plus d'informations)