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Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
ISBN-100143109391
ISBN-139780143109396
eBay Product ID (ePID)219259989
Product Key Features
Book TitleBarbarian Days : a Surfing Life (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Number of Pages464 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2016
TopicEditors, Journalists, Publishers, Special Interest / Adventure, Personal Memoirs, Essays & Travelogues, Surfing
IllustratorYes
GenreTravel, Sports & Recreation, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorWilliam Finnegan
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight12.4 Oz
Item Length8.4 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal797.32092
Synopsis**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., **Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Autobiography** "Reading this guy on the subject of waves and water is like reading Hemingway on bullfighting; William Burroughs on controlled substances; Updike on adultery. . . . a coming-of-age story, seen through the gloss resin coat of a surfboard."-- Sports Illustrated Included in President Obama's 2016 Summer Reading List 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. Praise for Barbarian Days "Without a doubt, the finest surf book I've ever read . . . But on a more fundamental level, Barbarian Days offers a clear-eyed vision of American boyhood. Like Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild , it is a sympathetic examination of what happens when literary ideas of freedom and purity take hold of a young mind and fling his body out into the far reaches of the world." --The New York Times Magazine "Incandescent . . . I'd sooner press this book upon on a nonsurfer, in part because nothing I've read so accurately describes the feeling of being stoked or the despair of being held under. . . . But] it's also about a writer's life and, even more generally, a quester's life, more carefully observed and precisely rendered than any I've read in a long time." --Los Angeles Times
Bewertungen und Rezensionen
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- 19. Apr. 2017
Barbarian Days --- Compelling Truths of the 1960's -- 1980's
I'm the same age as the author and I lived a similar lifestyle in the 1970's - 1980's - in different space, but comparable events - surfing - finding perfect waves - love before marriage and creative documentary writing and outdoor adventures galore -- BUT William Finnegan is capable of describing his life's events in a unique detail with the perfect straight forward language of a surfer and scholar.. He includes an understanding of current events mixed into his travels that leads any reader (surfer or not) to the next sentence, the next incident with several connections among people who have become household names of fame. The other characters who have certain talents in his world of surfing and lifestyle are deep insightful portraits worthy for us to know.. I am both listening to the Author read his book and also reading the words of the printed page back and forth and each has its own addictive feelings.. I highly recommend the audio CDs - even if you already read the book - there is much in the voice and the expressions that keep you riveted to the story and language of this award winning work.. Rick Sawyer
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- 14. Mai. 2020
Made me curious
Won the Pulitzer Prize and had great reviews. An unusual story that caught me immediately and continued through the whole book. I was familiar with some of the physical locations and the feel of his various time periods as I am little older and have lived several places.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 24. Nov. 2020
Surf Adventures
This is an awesome tale written in such a manner that everyone can relate to even if you don't surf! But If you do surf or love the beaches for all her glory, man, it's a great read....Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Neu
- 24. Nov. 2020
Great book
A good look at a surfing lifestyle few people experience.Finnegan does a very good job in exposing the pull and and mystery of his life in search of waves and his meaning to life.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 13. Jul. 2017
The best surfing book out there and I've read them all. Literate, introspective, and at times brutily honest. May resonate best for older surfers.
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- 28. Dez. 2022
Good Book
The book are in really good shapeBestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 06. Nov. 2018
Amazing Book
Very nice book enjoyed it a lot & it was the perfect gift for my surfer friend
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- 13. Sep. 2021
Excellent read
Interesting book about the reality of a surfers lifeBestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 03. Mär. 2018
Satisfied customer
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- 08. Sep. 2016
very late on shipping
ordered on Aug 9 didn't arrive until after Aug 22.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Neu
