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14 produkter
Barbarian Days
A Surfing Life
Häftad, 2016
196 kr
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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)Surfing only looks like a sport. To devotees, it is something else …
Barbarian Days
A Surfing Life (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Häftad, 2016
228 kr
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**Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Autobiography** Included in President Obama’s 2016 Summer Reading List “Without a doubt, the finest surf book I’ve ever read . . . ” —The New York Times Magazine Barbarian Days is William Finnegan’s memoir of an obsession, a complex enchantment. Surfing only …
Cold New World
Growing Up in Harder Country
E-bok, 2010
121 kr
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New Yorker writer William Finnegan spent time with families in four communities across America and became an intimate observer of the lives he reveals in these beautifully rendered portraits: a fifteen-year-old drug dealer in blighted New Haven, Connecticut; a sleepy Texas town transformed by …
Dateline Soweto
Travels with Black South African Reporters
E-bok, 1995
446 kr
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Dateline Soweto documents the working lives of black South African reporters caught between the mistrust of militant blacks, police harrassment, and white editors who—fearing government disapproval—may not print the stories these reporters risk their lives to get. William Finnegan revisited several …
Barbarian Days
A Surfing Life
E-bok, 2015
216 kr
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**Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Autobiography** * Included in President Obama’s 2016 Summer Reading List* A deeply rendered self-portrait of a lifelong surfer by the acclaimed New Yorker writer Barbarian Days is William Finnegan’s memoir of an obsession, a complex enchantment. Surfing only …
Complicated War
The Harrowing of Mozambique
Häftad, 1992
308 kr
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Powerful, instructive, and full of humanity, this book challenges the current understanding of the war that has turned Mozambique - a naturally rich country - into the world's poorest nation. Before going to Mozambique, William Finnegan saw the war, like so many foreign observers, through a South …
Dateline Soweto
Travels with Black South African Reporters
Häftad, 1995
427 kr
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"Dateline Soweto" documents the working lives of black South African reporters caught between the mistrust of militant blacks, police harassment, and white editors who - fearing government disapproval - may not print the stories these reporters risk their lives to get. William Finnegan revisited …
Complicated War
The Harrowing of Mozambique
E-bok, 1992
518 kr
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Powerful, instructive, and full of humanity, this book challenges the current understanding of the war that has turned Mozambique—a naturally rich country—into the world''s poorest nation. Before going to Mozambique, William Finnegan saw the war, like so many foreign observers, through a South …
Barbarian Days
A Surfing Life
E-bok, 2015
40 kr
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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 ) Surfing only looks like a sport. To devotees, it is something else …
Fight of the Century
Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases
Av Viet Thanh Nguyen, Jacqueline woodson m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
297 kr
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The American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman in this “forceful, beautifully written” (Associated Press) collection that brings together many of our greatest living writers, each contributing an original piece inspired by a historic ACLU …
Barbarian Days
A Surfing Life
Inbunden, 2015
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354 kr
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**Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Autobiography** Included in President Obama’s 2016 Summer Reading List “Without a doubt, the finest surf book I’ve ever read . . . ” —The New York Times Magazine Barbarian Days is William Finnegan’s memoir of an obsession, a complex enchantment. Surfing only …
