{"product_id":"barbarian-days","title":"Barbarian Days","description":"Winner of the Pulitzer Price 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)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSurfing 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNew 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBarbarian 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''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","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51519624282459,"sku":"9781472151414","price":21.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0048\/8207\/1652\/files\/9781472151414_1-barbarian-days.jpg?v=1760351084","url":"https:\/\/suomalainen-test.myshopify.com\/products\/barbarian-days","provider":"Suomalainen Test","version":"1.0","type":"link"}