{"product_id":"barbarian-days-a-surfing-life-9781472151414","title":"Barbarian Days : A Surfing Life","description":"Winner 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)\r\nSurfing 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.\r\nNew 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.\r\nBarbarian 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. \r\n'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\r\nWinner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography announced on 18\/4\/2016.\r\nWinner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year announced on 24\/11\/2016","brand":"Hachette international","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53793173864784,"sku":"PAP9781472151414","price":19.75,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0019\/1171\/7933\/files\/9781472151414_1_75.jpg?v=1791735955","url":"https:\/\/www.flashvideofilm.fr\/products\/barbarian-days-a-surfing-life-9781472151414","provider":"flash vidéo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}