Barbarian Days : A Surfing Life

Resumen del libro

Barbarian Days is William Finnegan's memoir of an obsession, of a complex enchantment. Surfing looks like a sport, but that's only to outsiders. To initiates, it is something else entirely: a beautiful addiction, 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, 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 and dramatizes the edgy camaraderie of close male friendships annealed in challenging waves.

Biografía del autor

William Finnegan (Nueva York, 1952) es escritor y periodista. Staff writer de la revista The New Yorker desde 1987, ha escrito sobre temas tan diversos como el apartheid, la guerra de los Balcanes, política latinoamericana, la pobreza en EE. UU. o el surf. Sus artículos y reportajes han recibido diversos premios y distinciones. Es autor de cinco libros: Crossing the Line (1986), Dateline Soweto (1988), A Complicated War (1992), Cold New World: Growing Up in a Harder Country (1998) y Años salvajes (2015, galardonado con el Premio Pulitzer de biografía 2016).