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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Scribner
ISBN-10
1982157690
ISBN-13
9781982157692
eBay Product ID (ePID)
26050414819
Product Key Features
Book Title
Hard Crowd : Essays 2000-2020
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Personal Memoirs, General, Essays
Publication Year
2021
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Literary Collections
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.5 in
Item Weight
16.9 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2021-931047
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"Heartbreaking and unforgettable... [ The Mars Room] deserves to be read with the same level of pathos, love, and humanity with which it clearly was written." -- Publishers Weekly, Starred Review "Kushner, an acclaimed writer of exhilarating skills, has created a seductive narrator of tigerish intensity... This is a gorgeously eviscerating novel of incarceration writ large." -- Booklist , Starred Review "A searing look at life on the margins...This is, fundamentally, a novel about poverty and how our structures of power do not work for the poor, and Kushner does not flinch...gripping." -- Kirkus Reviews "Kushner is back with another stunner...without a shred of sentimentality, Kushner makes us see these characters as humans who are survivors, getting through life the only way they are able given their circumstances." -- Library Journal, "An essential novel...Kushner is a bit of a magician, exploring bleak territory with pathos and urgency that makes it nearly impossible to stop reading." -- AM New York "Kushner is both tough and darkly funny in writing about her characters' situations, and she writes not so much for us to empathize with them, but rather to understand them. The Mars Room is a captivating and beautiful novel." -- BookPage "Kushner's writing is clipped and sharp, as she tells the story of [Romy's] adjustment to life behind bars -- and how she got there." -- The Week "An enormously ambitious project profoundly rooted in a particular time and place... Kushner's greatest achievement in this unique work of brilliance and rigor is to urge us all to take responsibility for the unconscionable state of the world in which we operate blithely every single day." --Jennifer Croft, The Los Angeles Review of Books "Rachel Kushner cements her place as the most vital and interesting American novelist working today... The Mars Room makes most other contemporary fiction seem timid and predictable." --Michael Lindgren, The Millions, "Kushner is a woman with the chops, ambition and killer instinct to rub shoulders with all those big, swinging male egos who routinely get worshipped as geniuses." --John Powers, Fresh Air "[A] tough, prismatic and quite gripping novel...wholly authentic...profound...surprisingly luminous." --Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal "A disturbing and atmospheric book...Ms Kushner makes the prison, and the world beyond its walls, vivid." -- The Economist "A searing, tragic look at life in the prison-industrial complex, covering poverty, sex work, mass incarceration, education, trauma, suffering, love, and redemption. Somehow, Kushner's rapid-fire, imaginative prose makes it seems effortless." -- Vogue "Potent...an incendiary examination of flawed justice and the stacked deck of a system that entraps women who were born into poverty... The Mars Room is more than a novel; it's an investigation, an exercise in empathy, an eyes-wide-open work of art." --Kelly Luce, Oprah, "Reading The Mars Room is a profoundly affecting experience, very nearly overwhelming, and yet it absolutely must be read. Kushner's first two novels ( Telex from Cuba , The Flamethrowers ) were National Book Award finalists. It would be baffling if The Mars Room does not win this year's." --Cory Oldweiler, amNewYork "[A] stunning new book... Kushner deploys the masterful storytelling she's known for...an unmistakable voice. " --Town and Country "Brilliant and devastating...Kushner doesn't make a false move in her third novel; she writes with an intelligence and a ferocity that sets her apart from most others in her cohort. She's a remarkably original and compassionate author, and The Mars Room is a heartbreaking, true and nearly flawless novel." --Michael Schaub, NPR.org, "Absorbing... The Mars Room is impeccably researched without ever seeming dry or preachy... insightful...authoritative...haunting." --Alexis Burling, San Francisco Chronicle "Kushner's got the talent to justify the hype... The Mars Room builds to a redemption that comes from hard truth, sharp and broken and shaped by an author of exceptional power and grace." --Jeff Baker, The Seattle Times "The book is beautifully written, without sentimentality or agenda, and at times even [with] a sly and dark humor." --Holly Silva, St. Louis Post-Dispatch "Readers will savor every detail of Ms. Kushner's descriptive passages, which bring ferocious beauty to even the ugliest surroundings." --Leigh Anne Focareta, The Pittsburgh Post Gazette "[Kushner is] an exceptionally talented and philosophically minded writer." --Jessica Zack, The San Francisco Chronicle, "[An] electrifying take on the chaos of 1980s San Francisco." --Sloane Crosley, Vanity Fair "Phosphorescently vivid." --Megan O'Grady, T Magazine "Superb and gritty... Kushner has an exceptional ability to be in the heads of her character." --Eve MacSweeney, Vogue "A powerful undertow pulls the reader through the book. I didn't consume it so much as it consumed me, bite by bite..." --Laura Miller, Slate "Kushner's characters are so authentic and vividly drawn that with each new novel, it's easy to assume she's tapped out. Yet in The Mars Room , she brings to life another remarkable heroine." --Time Magazine, Praise for The Mars Room: "Like Denis Johnson in 'Jesus' Son,' Kushner is on the lookout for bent moments of comic grace... The Mars Room is a major novel." --Dwight Garner, The New York Times "Kushner uses the novel as a place to be flamboyant and funny, and to tell propulsive stories, but mainly as a capacious arena for thinking." -- The New Yorker "[Rachel Kushner is] one of the most gifted novelists of her generation--on the same tier as Jennifer Egan and the two Jonathans, Franzen and Lethem...[ The Mars Room is] a page turner... blackly comic...It's one of those books that enrage you even as they break your heart." --Charles McGrath, The New York Times Book Review (Cover Review) " The Mars Room affirms Rachel Kushner as one of our best novelists...her stories slink in the margins, but they have the feel of something iconic." --Leah Greenblatt, Entertainment Weekly, "A revelatory novel about women on the margins of society...it's a true feat of Kushner's extraordinary writing that such profound ugliness can result in such tumultuous beauty." --Maris Kreizman, Vulture "Stunning...Heartbreaking and wholly original." -- Bustle "A probing portrait of contemporary America." -- Entertainment Weekly "Unflinching." -- Elle "Kushner's great gift is for the evocation of a scene, a time and place." --Harper's, "Kushner is a masterful world-creator, and her accomplishment here is unparalleled." -- Nylon "Kushner's writing and thinking are always invigorating, urgent, and painterly precise." --Vulture "Stunning... a gorgeously written depiction of survival and the absurd and violent facets of life in prison." -- Buzzfeed "Gorgeous... The Mars Room sings." --Sasha Frere-Jones, Bookforum, Praise for Rachel Kushner " The Hard Crowd is wild, wide-ranging, and unsparingly intelligent throughout." --Taylor Antrim, Vogue "[Kushner] seems to work with a muse and a nail gun, so surprisingly yet forcefully do her sentences pin reality to the page." --Kathryn Schulz, New York Magazine "Kushner can really write. Her prose has poise and wariness and moral graininess that put you in mind of Robert Stone of Joan Didion." --Dwight Garner, The New York Times "Rachel Kushner is astounding." --Anne Tyler, The Guardian "Kushner is brilliant." --Griel Marcus "She's going to be the one we turn to for our serious pleasures and for the insight and wisdom we'll be needing in hard times to come." --George Saunders
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
814/.6
Synopsis
" The Hard Crowd is wild, wide-ranging, and unsparingly intelligent throughout." --Taylor Antrim, Vogue From a writer celebrated for her "chops, ambition, and killer instinct" (John Powers, Fresh Air ), a career-spanning collection of spectacular essays about politics and culture. Rachel Kushner has established herself as "the most vital and interesting American novelist working today" ( The Millions ) and as a master of the essay form. In The Hard Crowd , 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 experiences that inform her fiction. In nineteen razor-sharp essays, The Hard Crowd spans 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. The closing, eponymous essay is her manifesto on nostalgia, doom, and writing. These pieces, new and old, are electric, vivid, and wry, and they provide an opportunity to witness the evolution and range of one of our most dazzling and fearless writers. "Kushner writes with startling detail, imagination, and gallows humor," said Leah Greenblatt in Entertainment Weekly , and, from Paula McLain in the Wall Street Journal : "The authority and precision of Kushner's writing is impressive, but it's the gorgeous ferocity that will stick with me."
LC Classification Number
PS3611.U7386H37 2021
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