Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life, William FinneganWinner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Autobiography Included in President Obamas 2016 Summer Reading List Without a doubt, the finest surf book Ive ever read . . . The New York Times Magazine Barbarian Days is William Finnegans 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

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the Priory's ancient secret -- and an explosive historical truth -- will be lost forever

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liars and assassins

and doomed love

civic order

For among the finches of Daphne Major

it is a meditation on love—love as outrage and hallucination

In the last months of his 29-year life

Racing through such timeless locations as the Palazzo Vecchio