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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.
nbsp;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.
| ISBN-13 | 9780887849756 |
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| ISBN-10 | 088784975X |
| Weight | 0.90 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 5.75 x 1.00 x 8.25 In |
| List Price | $19.95 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Language | English |
| Pages | 272 pages |
| Publisher | House of Anansi Press |
| Published On | 2011-09-27 |
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