{"product_id":"the-hard-crowd-by-rachel-kushner-9781529114027","title":"The Hard Crowd","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the Booker-shortlisted author, a wild ride of an essay collection about living fast and free in a crowded world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the Booker-shortlisted author of \u003cem\u003eThe Mars Room\u003c\/em\u003e, a career-spanning collection of spectacular essays about politics and culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Hard Crowd\u003c\/em\u003e, Rachel Kushner gathers a selection of her writing from over the course of the last twenty years that addresses the most pressing political, artistic, and cultural issues of our times - and illuminates the themes and real-life terrain that underpin her fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn razor-sharp essays spanning literary journalism, memoir, cultural criticism, and writing about art and literature, Kushner takes us from Jeff Koons and Marguerite Duras to a Palestinian refugee camp, from her love of classic cars to her young life in the music scene of San Francisco. The closing, eponymous essay is her manifesto on nostalgia, doom, and writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'I'm glad to taste something this sharp, this smart'\u003c\/em\u003e Olivia Laing\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Wild, wide-ranging and unsparingly intelligent throughout'\u003c\/em\u003e Vogue\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'An exciting book... Kushner writes from the inside out and gives us the true story, the real deal'\u003c\/em\u003e Kevin Barry, New Statesman, Books of the Year\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46553724453100,"sku":"9781529114027","price":27.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/11561993482732.jpg?v=1750079004","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/the-hard-crowd-by-rachel-kushner-9781529114027","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}