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Writers Live - William Finnegan introduces Barbarian Days
2nd Aug '16 @ Berkelouw Mona Vale


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You are invited to meet the 2016 Pulitzer Prize winner William Finnegan when he introduces his memoir Barbarian Days.

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.

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.

You are invited to meet William Finnegan when he is our guest at 6.30pm on Tuesday August 2nd, 2016.

Bookings are essential and can be made online by following this link, by phone on 9979 2112 or by email to monavale@berkelouw.com.au.

Cost: $ 12.00, $ 5.00 of which will be credited against any purchases made on the evening.

About the author:

William Finnegan is the author of Cold New War, Dateline Soweto,  and Crossing the Line. He has twice been a national Magazine Award finalist and has won numerous journalism awards, including two Overseas Press Club awards since 2009. A staff writer at The New Yorker since 1987, he lives in Manhattan.

 

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Where: 12-14 Park Street, Mona Vale, 2103, Sydney, AU
When: Tue, 2nd Aug
Time: 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM

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Barbarian Days
Finnegan William
9781472151414

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