{"product_id":"9781982157692","title":"The Hard Crowd","description":"\u003cb\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Hard Crowd\u003c\/i\u003e is wild, wide-ranging, and unsparingly intelligent throughout.” —Taylor Antrim, \u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom a writer celebrated for her “chops, ambition, and killer instinct” (John Powers, \u003ci\u003eFresh Air\u003c\/i\u003e), a career-spanning collection of spectacular essays about politics and culture.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRachel Kushner has established herself as “the most vital and interesting American novelist working today” (\u003ci\u003eThe Millions\u003c\/i\u003e) and as a master of the essay form. In \u003ci\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 experiences that inform her fiction.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn nineteen razor-sharp essays, \u003ci\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. The closing, eponymous essay is her manifesto on nostalgia, doom, and writing.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThese 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 \u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, and, from Paula McLain in the \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e: “The authority and precision of Kushner’s writing is impressive, but it’s the gorgeous ferocity that will stick with me.”","brand":"Rachel Kushner","offers":[{"title":"Scribner |  Hardback  |  2021-04-06","offer_id":44151065575679,"sku":"9781982157692","price":35.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/products\/BNCImageAPI_f85c564c-cf86-4067-a3b5-3a07f8a59d28.jpg?v=1636020729","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781982157692","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}