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Title: Kimo: A Collection of Short Stories
by Kimo Hollinger
ISBN: 0-9702618-3-7
Publisher: Anoai Press
Pub. Date: July, 2002
Format: Paperback
List Price(USD): $14.95
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Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)

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Rating: 5
Summary: KEY DEN
Comment: As you probably know we're bullish on Kimo's prose'cause it's down-home and avuncular on one hand, ironic and sharp on the other. And he draws a bead on a situation, fires, and invariably hits, all the while poling fun at himself in such a way as to let you know that it's the story not the teller that's the hero

Small press impresario (and numbah T'rees and Phuuket slider) Ted Gugelyk slammed this sweet little volume, so you know it's a handsome little number, and inside yhou'll find it wedged with splendid characters like Chubby Mitchell and the Family Aikau. We all want to keep Kimo in Kahuku green fees and Aunt Emma's Poke from Aloha Joe's, so pick up a copy so he gets his royalty already.

Steve Pezman, Surfers Journal, Fall 2002

Rating: 5
Summary: KIMO: Hawaiian Senior Surfer, Author, and gentleman
Comment: REVIEW EXCERPT:
"Kimo Hollinger writes as he speaks: without flourish or pretense, bluntly and yet thoughtfully. He is not a writer but a storyteller, one who is willing to tell the truth even when it exposes parts of himself that many men - especially members of the close-mouthed fraternity of big-wave riders - hesitate to reveal: tenderness, fear, regret.

This slim volume was underwritten by a quintet of supporters who believe in the importance of the Islands' surf stories and its elder storytellers, including Hollinger. It ranges the landscape of his life: his experiences in a fire department rescue squad, his friendships with other watermen, his strongly held views on the commercialized surfing scene today.

The writing is sometimes as choppy as a bad day on the South Shore. The delivery can be so understated as to leave the reader wondering. But, as his longtime editor at Surfer magazine and Surfer's Journal, Steve Pezman, says, there's always a point: "In the end, ka-pow, cha-ching, the irony, the cynicism, sometimes the tears come out."

If you like talking story with people who've been there, if you care about surfing and the Hawai'i that's been lost, this little book belongs on your shelf."

HONOLULU ADVERTISER
Book Review, by Wanda Adams

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