Winter 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. We learn how literature 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. Offering a kaleidoscopic take on the season, Winter is a homage to an idea of a season and a journey through the modern imagination.

About the Author
Adam Gopnik has been writing for the New Yorker since 1986. He is a three-time winner of the National Magazine Award for Essays and for Criticism, and the George Polk Award for magazine reporting. From 1995 to 2000 he lived in Paris; he now lives in New York City with his wife and their two children.

Reviews
'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 *



Book Information
ISBN 9781780874470
Author Adam Gopnik
Format Paperback
Page Count 288
Imprint riverrun
Publisher Quercus Publishing
Weight(grams) 260g
Dimensions(mm) 196mm * 130mm * 28mm