The Hard Crowd - Essays 2000-2020

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

About the author

Rachel Kushner is the author of The Mars Room, which was shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize. Her previous novels, Telex from Cuba and The Flamethrowers, were both New York Times bestsellers and finalists for the National Book Award. Her fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper’s and the Paris Review. She lives in Los Angeles.

Summary

'I'm glad to taste something this sharp, this smart' Olivia Laing'Wide-ranging and unsparingly intelligent throughout' VogueIn her twenties Rachel Kushner went to Mexico in pursuit of her first love - motorbikes - to compete in the notorious and deadly race, Cabo 1000.

Report

The Hard Crowd is wild, wide-ranging and unsparingly intelligent throughout. Vogue

Product details

• Authors: Rachel Kushner, Kushner Rachel
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 21.04.2022
• EAN: 9781529114027
• ISBN: 978-1-5291-1402-7
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Fiction > Poetry, drama; Jerusalem, Israel, Los Angeles, California, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 21st Century, 21st Century, Baja California, The arts, MUSIC / Essays, Feminism & feminist theory, Feminism and feminist theory, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Early 21st century c 2000 to c 2050