Winter: Five Windows on the Season - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0887849741 ISBN 13 : 9780887849749

Editeur : House of Anansi Pr

Synopsis

Winter 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, a Full description

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

'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)

Biographie de l'auteur

Adam Gopnik is the author of Angels and Ages, Paris to the Moon and Through the Children's Gate and is a contributor to the New Yorker. He lives in New York City with his wife and two children.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: House of Anansi Pr
• ISBN 10: 0887849741
• ISBN 13: 9780887849749
• Reliure: Broché