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Book

The hard crowd : essays 2000-2020

Call Number

  • 814 K972 (CEN, OSH)

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Edition

First Scribner hardcover edition.

Publication Information

New York : Scribner, 2021.

Physical Description

258 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Uniform Title

Essays. Selections

Summary

A career-spanning anthology of essays on politics and culture by the best-selling author of The Flamethrowers includes entries discussing a Palestinian refugee camp, an illegal Baja Peninsula motorcycle race, and the 1970s Fiat factory wildcat strikes.

Contents

  • Girl on a motorcycle
  • We are orphans here
  • Earth angel
  • In the company of truckers
  • Bad captains
  • Happy hour
  • Tramping in the byways
  • Flying cars
  • Picture-book horses
  • Not with the band
  • Made to burn
  • Popular mechanics
  • The Sinking of the HMS bounty
  • Duras with an S?
  • Is prison necessary?
  • Woman in revolt
  • Lipstick traces
  • Bunny
  • The Hard crowd.

Subjects

Genres

Essays.