{"product_id":"barbarian-days-a-surfing-life","title":"BARBARIAN DAYS: A SURFING LIFE","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the Pulitzer Prize and William Hill Sports Book of the Year: Barbarian Days is a deeply rendered self-portrait of a lifelong surfer looking for transcendence 'that recalls early James Salter' (Geoff Dyer, Observer) Surfing only looks like a sport. To devotees, it is something else entirely: a beautiful addiction, a mental and physical study, a passionate way of life. New Yorker writer William Finnegan first started surfing as a young boy in California and Hawaii. Barbarian Days is his immersive memoir of a life spent travelling the world chasing waves through the South Pacific, Australia, Asia, Africa and beyond. Finnegan describes the edgy yet enduring brotherhood forged among the swell of the surf; and recalling his own apprenticeship to the world's most famous and challenging waves, he considers the intense relationship formed between man, board and water. Barbarian Days is an old-school adventure story, a social history, an extraordinary exploration of one man's gradual mastering of an exacting and little-understood art. It is a memoir of dangerous obsession and enchantment. '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 Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography announced on 18\/4\/2016. Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year announced on 24\/11\/2016 Read more\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GENRES BSTIN Sports","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":62414833385842,"sku":"1472151410 - PB","price":6.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":62414833418610,"sku":"1472151410 - HB","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0914\/6889\/0482\/files\/71LmUaLzUZL.jpg?v=1790592421","url":"https:\/\/universalreads.com\/products\/barbarian-days-a-surfing-life","provider":"Universal reads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}