Winter Us Edition: Five Windows on the Season (CBC Massey Lectures) - Softcover

Gopnik, Adam

Softcover

ISBN 10: 088784975X ISBN 13: 9780887849756

Publisher: House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada, 2011

Synopsis

A taste for winter, a love of winter a mind for winter is for many a part of the modern human condition. International bestselling author Adam Gopnik does for this storied season what he did for the City of Light in the New York Times bestseller Paris to the Moon. Here he tells the story of winter in five parts: Romantic Winter, Radical Winter, Recuperative Winter, Recreational Winter, and Remembering Winter. In this stunningly beautiful meditation, Gopnik touches on a kaleidoscope of subjects, from the German romantic landscape to the politics of polar exploration to the science of ice. And in the end, he pays homage to what could be a lost season and thus, a lost collective cultural history due to the threat of global warming. Through delicate, enchanting, and intricate narrative detail, buoyed by his trademark gentle wit, Gopnik draws us into another magical world and makes us look at it anew.
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About this title

Review:

Praise for Angels and Ages:
"A scintillating synthesis of history, biography, and cultural commentary . . . Gopnik is a writer of dazzling skill and daunting accomplishment."
-- "Chicago Tribune"

Praise for "Angels and Ages: "
"A scintillating synthesis of history, biography, and cultural commentary . . . Gopnik is a writer of dazzling skill and daunting accomplishment."
-- "Chicago Tribune"
- A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of 2011

"Winter is a soulful, studied meditation on the season that most captures our imagination ... highly recommended." -- "New York Review of Books"

.".. a stream of endlessly entertaining insights and ideas -- a treasury of people and places and art." -- "Globe and Mail"

.".. beautifully written ..." -- "Columbian"

."..outstanding...[Adam Gopnik's] windows on winter illuminate varied aspects of the season, but, more profoundly, they also shed light on the human condition and our complex relationship with nature." --"Toronto Star"
A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of 2011

"Winter is a soulful, studied meditation on the season that most captures our imagination ... highly recommended." -- "New York Review of Books"

.".. a stream of endlessly entertaining insights and ideas -- a treasury of people and places and art." -- "Globe and Mail"

.".. beautifully written ..." -- "Columbian"

."..outstanding...[Adam Gopnik's] windows on winter illuminate varied aspects of the season, but, more profoundly, they also shed light on the human condition and our complex relationship with nature." --"Toronto Star"
A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of 2011
"Winter is a soulful, studied meditation on the season that most captures our imagination highly recommended." "New York Review of Books"
" a stream of endlessly entertaining insights and ideas -- a treasury of people and places and art." "Globe and Mail"
" beautifully written " "Columbian"
"outstanding[Adam Gopnik's] windows on winter illuminate varied aspects of the season, but, more profoundly, they also shed light on the human condition and our complex relationship with nature." "Toronto Star"
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A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of 2011
"Winter is a soulful, studied meditation on the season that most captures our imagination highly recommended." New York Review of Books
" a stream of endlessly entertaining insights and ideas -- a treasury of people and places and art." Globe and Mail
" beautifully written " Columbian
"outstanding[Adam Gopnik's] windows on winter illuminate varied aspects of the season, but, more profoundly, they also shed light on the human condition and our complex relationship with nature." Toronto Star
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From the Back Cover:

Winter takes us on an intimate tour of the artists, poets, composers, writerse, explorers, scientists and thinkers who helped shape a new and modern idea of winter. Adam Gopnik's enchanting book is a welcome reminder of why he's been acknowledged as one of the finest writers of non-fiction at work today.

About this edition

• Publisher: House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 088784975X
• ISBN 13: 9780887849756
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272