The Hard Crowd
- Author Rachel Kushner
- Narrator Rachel Kushner
- Publisher Random House
- Publish Date 8 April 2021
- Run Time 7 hours and 52 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Feminism and feminist theory, Literary essays, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, The Arts.
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What to expect
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A wildly original first essay collection from the bestselling, Booker Prize-shortlisted author of
The Mars Room
In her twenties Rachel Kushner went to Mexico in pursuit of her first love - motorbikes - to compete in the notorious and deadly race, Cabo 1000. As fellow racers died on the roadside, bikes were stolen and friends abandoned one another in the heat of the chase, she crashed at 130mph and miraculously survived; soon after, she decided to leave her controlling boyfriend and manoeuvred her way into a freer new life.
The Hard Crowd is a white-knuckle ride through that life; a book about muscling your way through, finding your own path and, as she says in the hair-raising opening piece, 'completing the ride without dying'. In nineteen razor-sharp essays she explores friendship, loss, social justice, art and more, taking us into the world of truckers, a Palestinian refugee camp, the American prison system and the San Francisco music scene, via the work of Jeff Koons, Marguerite Duras and the Rolling Stones. Fearless and bold, The Hard Crowd is an electrifying book about living fast and free in a crowded world.
© Rachel Kushner 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
Critics Review
The Hard Crowd is wild, wide-ranging and unsparingly intelligent throughout.
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