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The Hard Crowd
Essays 2000–2020
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The Hard Crowd
'I'm glad to taste something this sharp, this smart' Olivia Laing
'Wide-ranging and unsparingly intelligent throughout' Vogue
In her twenties Rachel Kushner went to Mexico in pursuit of her first love - motorbikes - to compete in the notorious and deadly race, Cabo 1000.
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From the Booker-shortlisted author, a wild ride of an essay collection about living fast and free in a crowded world.
From the Booker-shortlisted author of The Mars Room, a career-spanning collection of spectacular essays about politics and culture.
In 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.
In 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.
'I'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
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The Hard Crowd by Rachel Kushner is praised as a bold and wide-ranging work that combines art and literary criticism, reportage, and autobiography. It highlights Kushner's insightful intelligence and her ability to write vividly and powerfully about diverse topics, from motorcycle racing to politics. Critics commend her writing style, noting her capacity to pin reality to the page with unexpected force and clarity. The collection is described as entertaining, revealing, and a strong artistic statement.
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ISBN: 9781529114027
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 21 April 2022
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Vintage
Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 17.0mm
Width: 131.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 208g
Pages: 288
About the Author
Rachel Kushner is the author of The Hard Crowd, her acclaimed essay collection, and the internationally bestselling novels The Mars Room, The Flamethrowers, and Telex from Cuba, as well as a book of short stories, The Strange Case of Rachel K. She has won the Prix Medicis 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.
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