Winter: Five Windows on the Season

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House of Anansi, 2011 - Literary Collections - 256 pages
Collects the thoughts and perspectives of artists, poets, composers, writers, explorers, and scientists on the season of winter, from reflections on snow and God to the future of northern culture.
 

Contents

Radical Winter
51
Recuperative Winter
92
Recreational Winter
134
Remembering Winter
178
Bibliography
219
Permissions
243
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ADAM GOPNIK is the author of the international bestseller Paris to the Moon; Through the Children's Gate: A Home in New York; Angels and Ages: A Short Book about Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life; and Steps Across the Water. He 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. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he grew up in Montreal, Quebec. From 1995 to 2000, he lived in Paris. He now lives in New York City with his wife and their two children.

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