Some Regency Tales, Finnegan Mrs Sylvia

Автор: Finnegan William
Название: Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
ISBN: 0143109391 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780143109396
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: **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

Автор: Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Название: Financing Finnegan
ISBN: 1095476009 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781095476000
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 9190.00 T
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Описание: Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 - December 21, 1940) was an American Jazz Age author of novels and short stories. He is regarded as one of the greatest twentieth century writers. Fitzgerald was of the self-styled "Lost Generation," Americans born in the 1890s who came of age during World War I. He finished four novels, left a fifth unfinished, and wrote dozens of short stories that treat themes of youth, despair, and age.

Автор: Niamh McCrea, Fergal Finnegan
Название: Funding, Power and Community Development
ISBN: 1447336151 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781447336150
Издательство: Marston Book Services
Цена: 105590.00 T
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Описание: This edited collection critically explores the funding arrangements governing contemporary community development and how they shape its theory and practice.

Автор: Finnegan Ruth, Horton Robin
Название: Modes of Thought in Western and Non-Western Societies
ISBN: 1498242421 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781498242424
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 67130.00 T
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Автор: Wiley Steve
Название: The Fairytale Chicago of Francesca Finnegan
ISBN: 0998149217 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780998149219
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Цена: 24510.00 T
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Автор: Budd Finnegan
Название: Come Into My Head
ISBN: 0368423514 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780368423512
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Описание: The author discusses their battle with mental illness through codependency, love, and other vices. They also explore some of their sexuality, and how they view their anxiety -- a white woman in a victorian dress.