Winter: Five Windows on the Season - Rilegato

Gopnik, Adam

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 1780874448 ISBN 13: 9781780874449

Casa editrice: riverrun, 2012

Riassunto

Winter takes us on an intimate tour of the artists, poets, composers, writers, explorers, scientists and thinkers who helped shape a new and modern idea of winter. We learn how literature heralds the arrival of the middle class; how snow science leads to existential questions of God and our place in the world; how the race to the poles marks the human drive to imprint meaning on a blank space. Offering a kaleidoscopic take on the season, Winter is a homage to an idea of a season and a journey through the modern imagination.

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Recensione:

'As he's often proved, both in his previous books and in his pieces for The New Yorker, Gopnik can be a wonderful essayist, erudite, elegant and incisive ... there are flashes of brilliance here' Daily Telegraph. (Daily Telegraph)

'Gopnik's mind darts about like mercury as he tells his tale' The Times. (The Times)

'Long-time New Yorker staffer Gopnik examines via five well-wrought essays how winter has become coded into art, literature and our cultural memory' GQ magazine. (GQ magazine)

'The perfect fireside companion' The Observer. (Observer)

'Brilliantly insightful' Sunday Times. (Sunday Times)

'A fascinating read ... should be treasured' We Love This Book. (We Love This Book)

L'autore:

Adam Gopnik has been writing for the New Yorker since 1986. He is a three-time winner of the National Magazine Award for Essays and for Criticism, and the George Polk Award for magazine reporting. From 1995 to 2000 he lived in Paris; he now lives in New York City with his wife and their two children.

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• Editore: riverrun
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1780874448
• ISBN 13: 9781780874449
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 288