Crazy for the Storm: A Memoir of Survival (Hardcover) by Norman Ollestad

from tintinintibet

A well-paced father/son memoir, it contains engaging characters that defy the cliched categories of hero/villain that I find in childhood memoirs -- I'm no fan of annoyingly precocious kids waxing philosophical, but Ollestad is a very restrained writer with only a moment or two where I felt like ...

from SPWE14

Crazy for The Storm is a very well written, detailed novel that will blow you away. This book takes place in the 1970's, which is also an auto-biography of the Author Norman Ollestad. The book is based on the family of the Ollestads. Norman, who is the main character, is a strong willed, ignorant...

from bruchu

Growing Up With Divorced Parents The teaser of Ollestad's new memoir "Crazy For the Storm" is sure to pull you in, a story about surviving a plane crash in the snowy California mountains. I won't spoil the plot, but the survival story is really not that remarkable. But deep down, the book is fund...

from msf59

In February 1979, a small chartered plane, carrying an eleven year old boy (the author), his father, the father's girlfriend and the pilot, crashed into a mountain in northern California. Only the boy and the badly injured girlfriend were alive. Young Norman decides to head down the face of the m...

from msf59

In February 1979, a small chartered plane, carrying an eleven year old boy (the author), his father, the father's girlfriend and the pilot, crashed into a mountain in northern California. Only the boy and the badly injured girlfriend were alive. Young Norman decides to head down the face of the m...