Winter Cdn ed /tp: Five Windows on the Season
| Category: | Book |
| By (author): | Gopnik, Adam |
| Series: | Cbc Massey Lectures |
| Subject: | LITERARY CRITICISM / General |
| PHILOSOPHY / Essays | |
| PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Rationalism | |
| SOCIAL SCIENCE / Essays | |
| Awards: | Globe and Mail Top 100 Book (2011) Commended |
| Publisher: | House of Anansi Press Inc |
| Published: | September 2011 |
| Format: | Book-paperback |
| Pages: | 272 |
| Size: | 8.25in x 5.75in x 0.71in |
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| From The Publisher* | 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. 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 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. |
| From The Publisher* | International bestselling author and New Yorker columnist Adam Gopnik's 50th anniversary edition of the CBC Massey Lectures is at once an enchanting homage to a season and a captivating journey through the modern imagination. |
| From The Publisher* | 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. 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 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. |
| Review Quote* | Winter is a soulful, studied meditation on the season that most captures our imagination . . . highly recommended. |
| Review Quote* | ...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. |
| Review Quote* | ...charming...[Adam Gopnik's essays] provide a timely reminder that we still have something to learn about the season. |
| Review Quote* | ... a stream of endlessly entertaining insights and ideas -- a treasury of people and places and art. |
| Review Quote* | ... a book every Canadian needs to own. |
| Review Quote* | ... enlightening and full of discovery ... insightful ... |
| Review Quote* | ... pleasurably readable ... the Massey selectors made an inspired choice for 2011. |