{"product_id":"9781770890459","title":"Winter US Edition: Five Windows on the Season","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 2011 CBC Massey Lectures celebrates fifty years with bestselling author, essayist, cultural observer, and famed \u003cem\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e contributor Adam Gopnik, whose subject is winter -- the season, the space, the cycle. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGopnik 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA stunningly beautiful meditation buoyed by Gopnik’s trademark gentle wit, \u003cem\u003eWinter\u003c\/em\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"House of Anansi Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47131120566512,"sku":"9781770890459","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781770890459_p0.jpg?v=1763706862","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781770890459","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}