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Book Description Softcover. Condition: New. Illustrated. The 2011 CBC Massey Lectures celebrates fifty years with bestselling author, essayist, cultural observer, and famed New Yorker contributor Adam Gopnik, whose subject is winter -- the season, the space, the cycle.Gopnik 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. Here we learn how a poem by William Cowper 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. Gopniks kaleidoscopic work ends in the present day, when he traverses the underground city in Montreal, pondering the future of Northern culture.A stunningly beautiful meditation buoyed by Gopniks trademark gentle wit, Winter is at once an enchanting homage to an idea of a season and a captivating journey through the modern imagination. This deluxe 50th anniversary edition includes full-colour images printed on two 8-page inserts. Seller Inventory # DADAX088784975X
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. First edition, 1st printing. 2011 CBC Massey Lectures. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in NEW condition. 256 pages, replete with color illustrations, a full Bibliography & Index. "A taste for winter, a love of winter--'a mind for winter'--is for many a part of the modern condition. Adam Gopnik 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. Here we learn how a poem by William Cowper 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. Gopnik's kaleidoscopic work ends in the present day, when he traverses the underground city in Montreal, pondering the future of northern culture. A stunningly beautiful meditation buoyed by Gopnik's trademark gentle wit, WINTER is an enchanting homage to an idea of a season and a captivating journey through the modern imagination." [publisher copy] "WINTER is a soulful, studied meditation on the season that most captures our imagination. Highly recommended."--New York Review of Books. Pristine paperback w/brilliant corners & crisp edges, a square binding w/no creases in spine. A beautiful production of an inspiring essay collection. Seller Inventory # RUB1691
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