William Finnegan - Barbarian Days

Barbarian Days is William Finnegan’s memoir of an obsession, a complex enchantment. This narrative 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 annealed in challenging waves. Finnegan shares stories of life in a whites-only gang in a tough school in Honolulu even while his closest friend was a Hawaiian surfer. He shows us a world turned upside down for kids and adults alike by the social upheavals of the 1960s. Finnegan has written an old-school adventure story, an intellectual autobiography, a social history, and an extraordinary exploration of the gradual mastering of an exacting little understood art. 

William Finnegan is the author of Cold New World, A Complicated War, Dateline Soweto, and Crossing the Line. He has twice been a National Magazine Award finalist and has won numerous journalism awards, including two Overseas Press Club awards since 2009. A staff writer at The New Yorker since 1987, he lives in Manhattan.

 

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51 Tamal Vista Blvd
Corte Madera, CA 94925
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$27.95
ISBN: 9781594203473
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Published: Penguin Press - July 21st, 2015