Sách - Attention - Dispatches from a Land of Distraction by Joshua Cohen (UK edition, paperback)

Ships from and sold by EXPERAL Singapore Publisher: Independent Alliance Origin: United Kingdom (Imported) ISBN 13: 9781910695746 Condition: Brandnew Binding: paperback Pages: 712 Dimensons: 197 x 125 x 30 | 400 (gram) ---------------------------------------- A wide-ranging, thought-provoking, and rule-bending selection of non-fiction from Joshua Cohen, 'a major American writer' ( New York Times) - a powerful and fresh work of social criticism, examining the ways we can reclaim the power of attention in an age of constant distraction. With Attention, Joshua Cohen returns with his first collection of nonfiction, the culmination of two decades of writing and thought about life in the digital age. In essays, memoir, criticism, diary entries, and letters—many appearing here for the first time—Cohen covers the full depth and breadth of modern life: politics, literature, art, music, travel, the media, and psychology, and subjects as diverse as , Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, fictional animals, Gustav Mahler, Aretha Franklin, John Zorn, landscape photography, fake Caravaggios, Wikipedia, Gertrude Stein, Edward Snowden, Jonathan Franzen, Olympic women’s fencing, Atlantic City casinos, the closing of the Ringling Bros. circus, and Azerbaijan. Cohen directs his sharp gaze at home and abroad, calling upon his extraordinary erudition and unrivaled ability to draw connections between seemingly unlike things to show us how to live without fear in a world overflowing with information. At this crucial juncture in history, Attention is a guide for the perplexed—a handbook for anyone hoping to bring the wisdom of the past into the culture of the future. Biographical Note Joshua Cohen was born in 1980 in Atlantic City. He has written novels (Moving Kings, Book of Numbers), short fiction (Four New Messages), and nonfiction for The New York Times, Harper’s Magazine, n+1, London Review of Books, The New Republic, and others. From 2001 to 2007, he worked as a journalist throughout Europe. In 2017 he was named one of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists. He lives in New York City. Review Quote ‘Joshua Cohen has a complex and capacious consciousness.’ — Harold Bloom Review Quote ‘Cohen, one of our crucial young novelists, has made the non-fiction novel of our moment, formed of a constellation of investigations and inklings. No one’s done such a thing so well since George Trow or Joan Didion or Norman Mailer, if ever. It’s chasteningly brilliant, and the kind of chastening we unfortunately need.’ — Jonathan Lethem, author of The Fortress of Solitude Review Quote ‘Joshua Cohen is one of my favorite nonfiction writers. This book is a cause for celebration.’ — Elif Batuman, author of The Idiot Review Quote ‘First-rate … Whip-sharp … Cohen here flaunts a next-level virtuosity across countless fields of expertise … [and] tackles the meta-problem of attention with the fervour of a man who knows the solution.... [He] is a phenomenal thinker whatever the theme: granular, acrobatic, startling.’ — Benjamin Evans, the Guardian Review Quote ‘... cause for celebration and close study. [Cohen] is experimenting with the essay form much more, and more cleverly, than any major American writer today.’ — Zachary Fine, the Wall Street Journal Review Quote ‘I enjoy his electric prose style … when it comes to making sense of our times with verve and imagination, few authors are more rewarding of our attention.’ — Max Liu, the Financial Times Review Quote ‘Joshua Cohen – novelist, journalist, critic; prodigy, polyglot, polymath – has one of the most interesting minds in circulation. ... a young elegist for an old idea: ideas. He is a man profoundly out of step with the world in which he finds himself. Which is the only respectable place for a writer to be.’ — New York Times Review Quote ‘[W]hat thrilled me was the imaginative and transfiguring attention Cohen pays to everything he touches.... There’s so much pleasure in Cohen’s sentences.’ — James Wood, New Yorker Giá sản phẩm trên Tiki đã bao gồm thuế theo luật hiện hành. Bên cạnh đó, tuỳ vào loại sản phẩm, hình thức và địa chỉ giao hàng mà có thể phát sinh thêm chi phí khác như phí vận chuyển, phụ phí hàng cồng kềnh, thuế nhập khẩu (đối với đơn hàng giao từ nước ngoài có giá trị trên 1 triệu đồng).....