From the Booker-shortlisted author of The Mars Room, a
career-spanning collection of spectacular essays about politics and
culture. Rachel Kushner is a writer celebrated for her 'chops,
ambition, and killer instinct' (John Powers, Fresh Air). In The
Hard Crowd, she gathers a selection of her writing from over the
course of the last twenty years that addresses the most pressing
political, artistic, and cultural issues of our times - and
illuminates the themes and real-life terrain that underpin her
fiction. In nineteen razor-sharp essays, The Hard Crowd spans
literary journalism, memoir, cultural criticism, and writing about
art and literature, including pieces on Jeff Koons, Denis Johnson,
and Marguerite Duras. Kushner takes us on a journey through a
Palestinian refugee camp, an illegal motorcycle race down the Baja
Peninsula, 1970s wildcat strikes in Fiat factories, her love of
classic cars, and her young life in the music scene of her
hometown, San Francisco. The closing, eponymous essay is her
manifesto on nostalgia, doom, and writing. These pieces, new and
old, are electric, phosphorescently vivid, and wry, and they
provide an opportunity to witness the evolution and range of one of
the world's most dazzling and fearless writers.
General
| Imprint: |
Jonathan Cape
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
April 2021 |
| Authors: |
Rachel Kushner
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| Dimensions: |
234 x 153 x 20mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
272 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-78733-310-9 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
General
|
| LSN: |
1-78733-310-8 |
| Barcode: |
9781787333109 |
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