The Hard Crowd
Author: Kushner, Rachel
ISBN: 9781529114027
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 20 Sep 2022
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback / softback
Plt;bPgt;From the Booker-shortlisted author, a wild ride of an essay collection about living fast and free in a crowded world.Plt;/bPgt;
Plt;bPgt;From the Booker-shortlisted author of Plt;iPgt;The Mars RoomPlt;/iPgt;, a career-spanning collection of spectacular essays about politics and culture.Plt;/bPgt;Plt;BRPgt;Plt;bPgt;Plt;BRPgt;Plt;/bPgt;In Plt;iPgt;The Hard CrowdPlt;/iPgt;, Rachel Kushner 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.Plt;BRPgt;Plt;BRPgt;In razor-sharp essays spanning literary journalism, memoir, cultural criticism, and writing about art and literature, Kushner takes us from Jeff Koons and Marguerite Duras to a Palestinian refugee camp, from her love of classic cars to her young life in the music scene of San Francisco. The closing, eponymous essay is her manifesto on nostalgia, doom, and writing.Plt;BRPgt;Plt;BRPgt;Plt;bPgt;P#39;IP#39;m glad to taste something this sharp, this smartP#39; Olivia LaingPlt;/bPgt;Plt;BRPgt;Plt;bPgt;Plt;BRPgt;Plt;/bPgt;Plt;bPgt;P#39;Wild, wide-ranging and unsparingly intelligent throughoutP#39; Plt;iPgt;VoguePlt;/iPgt;Plt;/bPgt;Plt;BRPgt;Plt;bPgt;Plt;iPgt;Plt;BRPgt;Plt;/iPgt;Plt;/bPgt;Plt;bPgt;P#39;An exciting book... Kushner writes from the inside out and gives us the true story, the real dealP#39; Kevin Barry, Plt;iPgt;New StatesmanPlt;/iPgt;, Books of the YearPlt;/bPgt;
ISBN: 9781529114027
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 20 Sep 2022
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback / softback
Plt;bPgt;From the Booker-shortlisted author, a wild ride of an essay collection about living fast and free in a crowded world.Plt;/bPgt;
Plt;bPgt;From the Booker-shortlisted author of Plt;iPgt;The Mars RoomPlt;/iPgt;, a career-spanning collection of spectacular essays about politics and culture.Plt;/bPgt;Plt;BRPgt;Plt;bPgt;Plt;BRPgt;Plt;/bPgt;In Plt;iPgt;The Hard CrowdPlt;/iPgt;, Rachel Kushner 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.Plt;BRPgt;Plt;BRPgt;In razor-sharp essays spanning literary journalism, memoir, cultural criticism, and writing about art and literature, Kushner takes us from Jeff Koons and Marguerite Duras to a Palestinian refugee camp, from her love of classic cars to her young life in the music scene of San Francisco. The closing, eponymous essay is her manifesto on nostalgia, doom, and writing.Plt;BRPgt;Plt;BRPgt;Plt;bPgt;P#39;IP#39;m glad to taste something this sharp, this smartP#39; Olivia LaingPlt;/bPgt;Plt;BRPgt;Plt;bPgt;Plt;BRPgt;Plt;/bPgt;Plt;bPgt;P#39;Wild, wide-ranging and unsparingly intelligent throughoutP#39; Plt;iPgt;VoguePlt;/iPgt;Plt;/bPgt;Plt;BRPgt;Plt;bPgt;Plt;iPgt;Plt;BRPgt;Plt;/iPgt;Plt;/bPgt;Plt;bPgt;P#39;An exciting book... Kushner writes from the inside out and gives us the true story, the real dealP#39; Kevin Barry, Plt;iPgt;New StatesmanPlt;/iPgt;, Books of the YearPlt;/bPgt;
