{"product_id":"the-hard-crowd-rachel-kushner","title":"The Hard Crowd (Rachel Kushner)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Booker-shortlisted author of \u003ci\u003eThe Mars Room\u003c\/i\u003e, a career-spanning collection of spectacular essays about politics and culture.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Hard Crowd\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'I'm glad to taste something this sharp, this smart' Olivia Laing\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Wild, wide-ranging and unsparingly intelligent throughout' \u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'An exciting book... Kushner writes from the inside out and gives us the true story, the real deal' Kevin Barry, \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e, Books of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eRachel Kushner\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Hard Crowd\u003c\/i\u003e, her acclaimed essay collection, and the internationally bestselling novels \u003ci\u003eCreation Lake\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Mars Room\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Flamethrowers\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eTelex from Cuba\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as a book of short stories, \u003ci\u003eThe Strange Case of Rachel K\u003c\/i\u003e. She has won the Prix Médicis and been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Folio Prize, and was twice a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction. She is a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and the recipient of the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her books are translated into twenty-seven languages.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), B-format paperback, Englisch, 288 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65803520016733,"sku":"K094605387","price":11.8,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/9460538700001A.jpg?v=1788460269","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/the-hard-crowd-rachel-kushner","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}