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Barbarian Days : A Surfing Life / William Finnegan
Titre : Barbarian Days : A Surfing Life Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : William Finnegan, Auteur Editeur : London [United Kingdom] : Penguin Année de publication : 2016 ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-14-310939-6 Note générale : **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 ListLangues : Américain Note de contenu : 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 TimesNature du document : Roman Genre : Autobiographie, biographie/Aventure/Sport Réservation
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Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité Date d'acquisition SEV00016826 R FIN Livre de fiction Biblioteca della scuola secondaria English Disponible 11/12/2018 Giorni selvaggi. Una vita sulle onde / William Finnegan
Titre : Giorni selvaggi. Una vita sulle onde Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : William Finnegan, Auteur Editeur : 66th and 2nd Année de publication : 2016 Importance : 496p ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-88-98970-58-2 Note générale : Premio pulitzer 2016 Langues : Italien Langues originales : Anglais Note de contenu : Il surf è un'arte dai molti paradossi, in cui il desiderio di mostrarsi non è mai separato da quello di essere soli con le onde e sparire dietro un sipario di schiuma. "Le onde sono il campo da gioco. Il fine ultimo". Ma sono anche l'avversario, la nemesi. William Finnegan ha subito l'incanto del mare fin da bambino, in California, vedendo i surfisti "danzare sull'acqua". A tredici anni andrà a vivere ai piedi del cratere di Diamond Head, alle Hawaii. E quell'incanto si trasformerà a poco a poco in una devozione assoluta al dio oceano. A venticinque anni, il suo sogno è di rigenerarsi agli Antipodi e vedere il mondo prima che si trasformi tutto in Los Angeles. Inizia così "la ricerca", il viaggio dell'inverno senza fine, la circumnavigazione del globo a caccia di onde. Prima Guam, poi le isole Samoa, il regno di Tonga, l'arcipelago delle Figi, dove scopre il magnifico break di Tavarua, davanti a un lembo di terra assente perfino dalle mappe. Al suo fianco c'è Bryan, che è andato al funerale di Kerouac e fa surf "come se non ci fosse un domani". Ultima tappa il Sudafrica dell'apartheid, dove matura una nuova consapevolezza, poi l'inevitabile ritorno a casa. Ma la ricerca non è ancora finita. Nature du document : Roman Genre : Récit de vie/Sport Réservation
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Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité Date d'acquisition SEV00016566 R FIN Livre de fiction Biblioteca della scuola secondaria Italiano Disponible 06/11/2018