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Winter :Five Windows on the Season

3.78 ( 556 Ratings by Goodreads)
Winter

Winter :Five Windows on the Season

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3.78 (556 Ratings by Goodreads)
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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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Type Book
ISBN13 9781780874470
ISBN10 1780874472
Number Of Pages 288
Item Weight 253 g
Product Dimensions 130 x 196 x 28 mm
Publisher / Reseller Quercus Publishing
Format paperback
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'Gopnik's mind darts about like mercury as he tells his tale' The Times. * The Times *
'Often startlingly good ... The perfect fireside companion' Observer. * Observer *
'Brilliantly insightful ... Any writer who can take subjects as diverse as Wilson Bentley's snow crystal photographs, Dickens's Christmas stories and the myth that the Inuit have dozens of different words for snow, and find something original and interesting to say about each of them, has to be worth reading' Sunday Times. * Sunday Times *
'Makes chilliness worth every minute' The Economist. * Economist *

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Author's Bio

Adam Gopnik has been writing for the New Yorker since 1986. He is a three-time winner of the National Magazine Award for Essays and for Criticism, and the George Polk Award for magazine reporting. From 1995 to 2000 he lived in Paris; he now lives in New York City with his wife and their two children.

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