Barbarian Days - A Surfing Life
Penguin Books, 2016
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**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
Részletek
- angol
- Kötés: papír / puha kötés
- hibátlan, olvasatlan példány
- Szállító: Bástya Antikvárium
- hullámos lapokkal
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