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A deeply-rendered self-portrait of a life-long surfer by the acclaimed New Yorker journalist
Barbarian Days is William Finnegan’s memoir of an obsession, of a complex enchantment. Surfing looks like a sport, but that’s only to outsiders. To initiates, it is something else entirely: a beautiful addiction, 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, 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 nosesoff the coasts of New York and San Franciscoand dramatizes the edgy camaraderie of close male friendships annealed in challenging waves.
Finnegan shares stories of life in a whites-only gang in a tough school in Honolulu while his closest friend was a Hawaiian surfer, and of 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 follyhe drops acid while riding huge Honolua Bay on Mauiis served with rueful humor. Their knapsacks crammed with reef charts, he and a buddy bushwhack through Polynesia. They discover while camping on an uninhabited island in Fiji one of the world’s greatest waves. As Finnegan’s travels take him ever farther afield, he becomes an improbable anthropologist: unpicking the picturesque simplicity of a Samoan fishing village, dissecting the sexual politics of Tongan interactions with Americans and Japanese, navigating 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 a novice’s gradual mastering of a demanding, little-understood art. Today, Finnegan’s surfing life is undiminished. Frantically juggling work and family, he chases his enchantment through Long Island ice storms and obscure corners of Madagascar.
Finnegan shares stories of life in a whites-only gang in a tough school in Honolulu while his closest friend was a Hawaiian surfer, and of 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 follyhe drops acid while riding huge Honolua Bay on Mauiis served with rueful humor. Their knapsacks crammed with reef charts, he and a buddy bushwhack through Polynesia. They discover while camping on an uninhabited island in Fiji one of the world’s greatest waves. As Finnegan’s travels take him ever farther afield, he becomes an improbable anthropologist: unpicking the picturesque simplicity of a Samoan fishing village, dissecting the sexual politics of Tongan interactions with Americans and Japanese, navigating 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 a novice’s gradual mastering of a demanding, little-understood art. Today, Finnegan’s surfing life is undiminished. Frantically juggling work and family, he chases his enchantment through Long Island ice storms and obscure corners of Madagascar.
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- Título Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
- Autor William Finnegan
- Encadernação Capa dura
- Edição 1st
- Páginas 464
- Volumes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Penguin Press, New York
- Data de publicação 2015-07-21
- Ilustrado Sim
- Features Illustrated
- ISBN 9781594203473 / 1594203474
- Peso 1.45 libras (0.66 kg)
- Dimensão 9.4 x 6.2 x 1.5 in. (23.88 x 15.75 x 3.81 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Autobiographies, Finnegan, William
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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- Books & Culture, 01/01/2016, Page 34
- Entertainment Weekly, 05/15/2015, Page 65
- Kirkus Reviews, 05/15/2015, Page 0
- Library Journal, 05/15/2015, Page 88
- Library Journal Prepub Alert, 02/15/2015, Page 68
- New York Review of Books, 08/13/2015, Page 30
- New York Times Book Review, 07/19/2015, Page 8
- NY Times Notable Bks of Year, 12/06/2015, Page 27
- Outside, 07/01/2015, Page 29
- Publishers Weekly, 04/27/2015, Page 0
- Publishers Weekly Best Books, 11/02/2015, Page 25
- Shelf Awareness, 08/18/2015, Page 0
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