Finnegan shares stories of life in a whites-only gang in a tough school in Honolulu. It immerses the reader in the edgy camaraderie of close male friendships forged in challenging waves. Barbarian Days takes us deep into unfamiliar worlds, some of them right under our noses-off the coasts of New York and San Francisco. A bookish boy, and then an excessively adventurous young man, he went on to become a distinguished writer and war reporter. He has chased waves all over the world, wandering for years through the South Pacific, Australia, Asia, Africa. Raised in California and Hawaii, Finnegan started surfing as a child. To initiates, it is something else: a beautiful addiction, a demanding course of study, a morally dangerous pastime, a way of life. " -The New York Times Magazine Barbarian Days is William Finnegan's memoir of an obsession, a complex enchantment. **Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Autobiography** Included in President Obama's 2016 Summer Reading List "Without a doubt, the finest surf book I've ever read.
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