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Barbarian Days : A Surfing Life Hardcover William Finnegan
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- Publication Name
- Penguin Publishing Group
- ISBN
- 9781594203473
- Book Title
- Barbarian Days : a Surfing Life
- Item Length
- 9.6in
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.5in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Travel, Sports & Recreation
- Topic
- Editors, Journalists, Publishers, Special Interest / Adventure, Personal Memoirs, Essays & Travelogues, Surfing
- Item Width
- 6.5in
- Item Weight
- 23.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 464 Pages
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**Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Autobiography** Included in President Obama's 2016 Summer Reading List "Without a doubt, the finest surf book I've ever read . . . " --The New York Times Magazine Barbarian Days is William Finnegan's memoir of an obsession, a complex enchantment. Surfing only looks like a sport. To initiates, it is something else: a beautiful addiction, a demanding course of study, a morally dangerous pastime, a way of life. Raised in California and Hawaii, Finnegan started surfing as a child. He has chased waves all over the world, wandering for years through the South Pacific, Australia, Asia, Africa. A bookish boy, and then an excessively adventurous young man, he went on to become a distinguished writer and war reporter. Barbarian Days takes us deep into unfamiliar worlds, some of them right under our noses--off the coasts of New York and San Francisco. It immerses the reader in the edgy camaraderie of close male friendships forged in challenging waves. Finnegan shares stories of life in a whites-only gang in a tough school in Honolulu. He shows us a world turned upside down for kids and adults alike by the social upheavals of the 1960s. He details the intricacies of famous waves and his own apprenticeships to them. Youthful folly--he drops LSD while riding huge Honolua Bay, on Maui--is served up with rueful humor. As Finnegan's travels take him ever farther afield, he discovers the picturesque simplicity of a Samoan fishing village, dissects the sexual politics of Tongan interactions with Americans and Japanese, and navigates the Indonesian black market while nearly succumbing to malaria. Throughout, he surfs, carrying readers with him on rides of harrowing, unprecedented lucidity. Barbarian Days is an old-school adventure story, an intellectual autobiography, a social history, a literary road movie, and an extraordinary exploration of the gradual mastering of an exacting, little-understood art.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1594203474
ISBN-13
9781594203473
eBay Product ID (ePID)
175197846
Product Key Features
Book Title
Barbarian Days : a Surfing Life
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Editors, Journalists, Publishers, Special Interest / Adventure, Personal Memoirs, Essays & Travelogues, Surfing
Publication Year
2015
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Travel, Sports & Recreation
Number of Pages
464 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.6in
Item Height
1.5in
Item Width
6.5in
Item Weight
23.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Gv838.F58a3 2015
Reviews
Bob Shacochis, Outside Magazine : "Fearless and full of grace." O, The Oprah Magazine : "Irresistible." Bookforum : "As it progresses the whole book turns into a portal...It's tempting to say that Barbarian Days will bring readers as close as they'll get to the surf, short of actual surfing. But I had a stronger reaction: The book brought me closer than I'd ever been, or expected to get, to the real, unfathomable ocean." O, The Oprah Magazine : "Irresistible." BBC.com : "A dream of a book by a masterful writer long immersed in surfing culture. Finnegan recaptures the waves lost and found, the euphoria, the danger...the allure." Publishers Weekly (starred review) : "Panoramic and fascinating...The core of the book is a surfing chronicle, and Finnegan possesses impeccable short-board bona fides...A revealing and magisterial account of a beautiful addiction." Mark Rotella, Publishers Weekly's Best Summer Books of the Summer: "Like that powerful, glassy wave, great books on surfing come few and far between. This summer, New Yorker writer Finnegan recalls his teenage years in the California and Hawaii of the 1960s--when surfing was an escape for loners and outcasts. A delightful storyteller, Finnegan takes readers on a journey from Hawaii to Australia, Fiji, and South Africa, where finding those waves is as challenging as riding them." Kirkus: "A fascinating look inside the mind of a man terminally in love with a magnificent obsession. A lyrical and intense memoir." Library Journal : "An up-close and personal homage to the surfing lifestyle through the author's journey as a lifelong surfer. Finnegan's writing is polished and bold...[A] high-caliber memoir.", Publishers Weekly (starred review) : "Panoramic and fascinating...The core of the book is a surfing chronicle, and Finnegan possesses impeccable short-board bona fides...A revealing and magisterial account of a beautiful addiction." Mark Rotella, Publishers Weekly's Best Summer Books of the Summer: "Like that powerful, glassy wave, great books on surfing come few and far between. This summer, New Yorker writer Finnegan recalls his teenage years in the California and Hawaii of the 1960s--when surfing was an escape for loners and outcasts. A delightful storyteller, Finnegan takes readers on a journey from Hawaii to Australia, Fiji, and South Africa, where finding those waves is as challenging as riding them." Kirkus: "A fascinating look inside the mind of a man terminally in love with a magnificent obsession. A lyrical and intense memoir." Library Journal : "An up-close and personal homage to the surfing lifestyle through the author's journey as a lifelong surfer. Finnegan's writing is polished and bold...[A] high-caliber memoir.", Kirkus: "A fascinating look inside the mind of a man terminally in love with a magnificent obsession. A lyrical and intense memoir."
Copyright Date
2015
Lccn
2015-472507
Dewey Decimal
797.32092
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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