{"product_id":"the-hard-crowd-essays-20002020-9781529114027","title":"The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eRachel Kushner's The Hard Crowd is a collection of essays that address political, artistic, and cultural issues, and illuminate the themes and real-life terrain that underpin her fiction. The essays span literary journalism, memoir, cultural criticism, and writing about art and literature, taking readers from Jeff Koons and Marguerite Duras to a Palestinian refugee camp and from her love of classic cars to her young life in the music scene of San Francisco. The closing essay is her manifesto on nostalgia, doom, and writing. \u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat\u003c\/strong\u003e: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLength\u003c\/strong\u003e: 288 pages\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication date\u003c\/strong\u003e: 21 April 2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: Vintage Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the Booker-shortlisted author of The Mars Room, a career-spanning collection of spectacular essays about politics and culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn The Hard Crowd, 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\u003eI'm glad to taste something this sharp, this smart. Olivia Laing Wild, wide-ranging and unsparingly intelligent throughout Vogue An exciting book... Kushner writes from the inside out and gives us the true story, the real deal. Kevin Barry, New Statesman, Books of the Year.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight\u003c\/strong\u003e: 234g\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimension\u003c\/strong\u003e: 197 x 129 x 21 (mm)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9781529114027\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rachel Kushner","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":44101882151162,"sku":"9781529114027","price":8.04,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/4297\/2845\/products\/1650633984696_book.jpg?v=1650747694","url":"https:\/\/shulphink.com\/products\/the-hard-crowd-essays-20002020-9781529114027","provider":"Shulph Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}