Hard Crowd
Rachel Kushner
From the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Mars Room, a wildly original first essay collection about living fast and free in a crowded worldIn 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 80mph 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 essay, 'completing the ride without dying'. Charged with hot-blooded humanity - with anger against the world's cruelties, and a free-wheeling passion for rare people, machines, movies, music, art and writing - it is an electrifying work about a woman's determination to reach the finish line.
ISBN: 9781787333109
Author: Kushner, Rachel
Publication date: 13/04/2021
Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
Dimension: 234mm X 153mm
ISBN: 9781787333109
Author: Kushner, Rachel
Publication date: 13/04/2021
Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
Dimension: 234mm X 153mm