Becoming Westerly: Surf Champion Peter Drouyn's Transformation into Westerly Windina (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798656225595)

In the sixties and seventies, Australian Peter Drouyn was one of the world's greatest surfers. He pioneered an aggressive approach called "power surfing," introduced the man-on-man competition format, and charged giant waves in Hawaii. A Zelig figure, he took on many roles-method actor, surf resort owner, modeling school founder, and lawyer to name but a few. For nearly the past decade, Peter has been living as a woman, Westerly Windina, a complex, aspiring entertainer. Beginning with her 2012 trip to Bangkok for gender reassignment surgery, BECOMING WESTERLY traces Peter Drouyn's odyssey from teenage Queensland hopeful to 1960s surf champion to embittered has-been who struggles to rise again as the glamorous, sixty-four-year-old Westerly Surf journalist Jamie Brisick provides an intimate exploration of global surf culture-a nuanced portrait of Peter/Westerly and the world that shaped her evolving identity. Brisick also co-directed the documentary film version of her story, titled Becoming Westerly.

Author: Jamie Brisick
ISBN-10: 8656225596
ISBN-13: 9798656225595
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 06/23/2020
Pages: 312
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.70d