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 Marco Название: Lizard in a Zoot Suit ISBN: 1541586956 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781541586956 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 11950.00 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.
[Lizard in a Zoot Suit] is both a politically charged drama and a pulpy sci-fi story all in one, and an ideal graphic novel for Young Adults.--Comicon.com
A new YA graphic novel [that] takes a moment in real world history and turns it into the basis for a thrilling adventure that is never anything less than stylish.--The Hollywood Reporter
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.
Автор: Finnegan Ruth Название: Literacy and Orality ISBN: 1291995412 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781291995411 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 42650.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: An enlarged and updated edition of Ruth Finnegan`s authoritative and fully evidenced classic., dedicated to the great Africanist scholar and lifelong friend of the Somali people ` Goosh` Andrzejewski.
Автор: Finnegan Ruth Название: A Thousand Ways to Please a Husband: Betiina`s Recipe Book ISBN: 1291890548 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781291890549 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 39830.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: An undiscovered treasure: the romance of cookery first published in America in 1911. A cross between the ease of quick-cook and the solidity and care of Mrs Beaton, interspersed with delicious period dialogue. As hard to put down as a novel. And who knew the Victorian cooks had such a ranges of dishes AND ingredients? Callender cooking.
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: Finnegan Ruth Название: Prologues and Prefaces the Insights of Great Minds ISBN: 1291623906 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781291623901 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 35880.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Printed first, thought and penned last., the innermost final thoughts by great thinkers on their world- moving works. Not to be missed. CALLENDER CLASSICS
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