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Winter: Five Windows on the Season

Winter: Five Windows on the Season

by Adam Gopnik (Author)

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    Hardcover 2012

    $3.40
Synopsis

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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More Information

Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 288
 Publisher: riverrun
Published: 25 Oct 2012
ISBN 10: 1780874448
ISBN 13: 9781780874449

Media Reviews
'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 *
Author Bio
Adam Gopnik is the author of Angels and Ages, Paris to the Moon and Through the Children's Gate and is a contributor to the New Yorker. He lives in New York City with his wife and two children.