{"product_id":"hard-crowd-essays-2000-2020","title":"Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFrom the Booker-shortlisted author of \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Mars Room\u003c\/i\u003e, a career-spanning collection of spectacular essays about politics and culture.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRachel Kushner is a writer celebrated for her 'chops, ambition, and killer instinct' (John Powers, \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFresh Air\u003c\/i\u003e). In \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Hard Crowd\u003c\/i\u003e, she 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 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn nineteen razor-sharp essays, \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Hard Crowd \u003c\/i\u003espans literary journalism, memoir, cultural criticism, and writing about art and literature, including pieces on Jeff Koons, Denis Johnson, and Marguerite Duras. Kushner takes us on a journey through a Palestinian refugee camp, an illegal motorcycle race down the Baja Peninsula, 1970s wildcat strikes in Fiat factories, her love of classic cars, and her young life in the music scene of her hometown, San Francisco.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe closing, eponymous essay is her manifesto on nostalgia, doom, and writing.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThese pieces, new and old, are electric, phosphorescently vivid, and wry, and they provide an opportunity to witness the evolution and range of one of the world's most dazzling and fearless writers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Oversized Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePublished: UK, 2021\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Random House\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePages: 272\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eISBN 13: 9781787333109\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eISBN 10: 1787333108\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rachel Kushner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39304898084967,"sku":"","price":12.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/products\/Screenshot_2021-04-08Gardners-TheHardCrowd.png?v=1617871473","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/hard-crowd-essays-2000-2020","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}