{"product_id":"becoming-westerly-the-transformation-of-surfing-champion-peter-drouyn-into-westerly-windina-by-jamie-brisick","title":"Becoming Westerly The transformation of surfing champion Peter Drouyn into Westerly Windina by Jamie Brisick","description":"'Peter was always looking for a princess, he wanted to find his princess. Unfortunately, the princess was me. I'm the princess that Peter always wanted but never met.' Westerly Windina\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Westerly's affection for Peter comes in many guises. Most of the time it's wistful and forlorn. When she talks about his awkwardness, his pretending to be something he was not, she sounds like a mother remembering her deceased child.' Jamie Brisick, from \u003ci\u003eBecoming Westerly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePeter Drouyn was a champion surfer with a touch of genius who forever changed the face of surfing by introducing the concept of the man-on-man competition format. Known for his aggressive yet elegant style on the wave, Drouyn was also a lawyer, heartthrob actor and showman extraordinaire, famous for his eccentric behaviour and ambitious ideas.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor nearly a decade now, Peter Drouyn has been living as a woman, Westerly Windina. The surfing community is at once awestruck, sceptical and supportive. As one renowned surf journalist put it, 'Is this Peter's greatest performance ever?' In a recent issue of \u003ci\u003eSurfing World\u003c\/i\u003e, surfers voted Peter\/Westerly 'the most interesting surfer in the world'. And the world is taking notice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeginning with her 2012 trip to Bangkok for gender reassignment surgery, \u003ci\u003eBecoming Westerly\u003c\/i\u003e retraces Peter Drouyn's odyssey from teenage Queensland hopeful to 1960s global surfing sensation to embittered, middle-age has-been to the phoenix-like, glamorous, sixty-four-year-old Westerly. As Westerly herself notes, 'It was like a Supernova. It just kicked in one night and, bang, Peter was gone and Westerly was there. Part biography, part memoir, part documentary, part saga, \u003ci\u003eBecoming Westerly\u003c\/i\u003e is as much an exploration of surf culture and Australian society as it is of sexual identity. But most of all it is a portrait of two extraordinary people in one, and a very personal account of the courage and self-belief it has taken for Peter to become Westerly.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9781760111007\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43016087502911,"sku":null,"price":29.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0647\/8626\/8223\/files\/18497013482814.jpg?v=1773743358","url":"https:\/\/bookconnection.com.au\/products\/becoming-westerly-the-transformation-of-surfing-champion-peter-drouyn-into-westerly-windina-by-jamie-brisick","provider":"The Book Connection","version":"1.0","type":"link"}