{"product_id":"a-writer-of-our-time-joshua-sperling-9781786637437","title":"A Writer of Our Time: The Life and Work of John Berger","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"This engaging intellectual biography traces Berger's creative evolution, analyzes highlights from his vast output ... and situates them within his empathetic Marxism.\"\u003cbr\u003e-\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe first intellectual biography of the life and work of John Berger \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJohn Berger was one of the most influential thinkers and writers of postwar Europe. As a novelist, he won the Booker prize in 1972, donating half his prize money to the Black Panthers. As a TV presenter, he changed the way we looked at art with \u003ci\u003eWays of Seeing\u003c\/i\u003e. As a storyteller and political activist, he defended the rights and dignity of workers, migrants, and the oppressed around the world. \"Far from dragging politics into art,\" he wrote in 1953, \"art has dragged me into politics.\" He remained a revolutionary up to his death in January 2017.Built around a series of watersheds, at once personal and historical, \u003ci\u003eA Writer of Our Time\u003c\/i\u003e traces Berger's development from his roots as a postwar art student and polemicist in the Cold War battles of 1950s London, through the heady days of the 1960s--when the revolutions were not only political but sexual and artistic--to Berger's reinvention as a rural storyteller and the long hangover that followed the rise and fall of the New Left.\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on first-hand, unpublished interviews and archival sources only recently made available, Joshua Sperling digs beneath the moments of controversy to reveal a figure of remarkable complexity and resilience. The portrait that emerges is of a cultural innovator as celebrated as he was often misunderstood, and a writer increasingly driven as much by what he loved as by what he opposed. \u003ci\u003eA Writer of Our Time\u003c\/i\u003e brings the many faces of John Berger together, repatriating one of our great minds to the intellectual dramas of his and our time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joshua Sperling\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 178663743X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781786637437\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Verso\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/14\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.90d","brand":"Joshua Sperling","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43938076885247,"sku":"9781786637437","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_ce429e43-db74-4938-843c-c19a42de8f53.jpg?v=1681433592","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-writer-of-our-time-joshua-sperling-9781786637437","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}