Автор: Finnegan William Название: Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life ISBN: 0143109391 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780143109396 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 11650.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. 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: Finnegan Marco Название: Garfield`s (R) Guide to Creating Your Own Comic Strip ISBN: 1541546423 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781541546424 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 32170.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка.
Автор: Finnegan Ruth Название: Short Story Writing ISBN: 129145392X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781291453928 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 28700.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A gathering of the best stories from past centuries, with an illuminating introduction Callender Academic
Автор: Collins Timothy Название: Memories of Santa Claus: Louis Finnegan ISBN: 0997787317 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780997787313 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 17230.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Grobel Lawrence Название: Begin Again Finnegan ISBN: 150098647X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781500986476 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 17470.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Finnegan Marco Название: Lizard in a Zoot Suit ISBN: 1541523652 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781541523654 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 36770.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание:
Los Angeles, 1943. It's the era of the Zoot Suit Riots, and Flaca and Cuata have a problem. It's bigger than being grounded by their strict mother. It's bigger than tensions with the soldiers stationed nearby. And it's shaped like a five-foot-tall lizard. When a lost member of an unknown underground species needs help, the sisters must scramble to keep their new friend away from a corrupt military scientist--but they'll do it in style. Cartoonist Marco Finnegan presents Lizard in a Zoot Suit, an outrageous, historical, sci-fi graphic novel.
Автор: Finnegan Ruth Название: Beyond the Walls: Researchers Outside the University Volume 2 ISBN: 1291463089 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781291463088 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 29820.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: does researching take place only in the universities? and what about the opportunities opened up by the web? you read it first here! Callender Academic
Автор: Wiley Steve Название: The Fairytale Chicago of Francesca Finnegan ISBN: 0998149217 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780998149219 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 24510.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Finnegan Jr Jeanette Gray Название: Legends and Lore: Spirits of Cape Hatteras Island ISBN: 1597151173 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781597151177 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 13750.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Finnegan Ruth Название: Time for the World to Learn from Africa ISBN: 1911221213 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781911221210 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 27650.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
