WILLIAM FINNEGAN
BARBARIAN DAYS: A SURFING LIFE
Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
OUTLINE
New Yorker writer William Finnegan first started surfing as a young boy in California and Hawaii. Barbarian Days is his immersive memoir of a life spent travelling the world chasing waves through the South Pacific, Australia, Asia, Africa and beyond.
REVIEWS
'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.
Barbarian Days is a deeply rendered self-portrait of a lifelong surfer looking for transcendence 'that recalls early James Salter' - Geoff Dyer, Observer.
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