{"product_id":"rocket-and-lightship-adam-kirsch-9780393243468","title":"Rocket and Lightship: Essays on Literature and Ideas","description":"Adam Kirsch has been described as \"elegant and astute...[a] critic of the very first order\" (Michiko Kakutani, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e). In these brilliant, wide-ranging essays, published over the last eight years in the \u003cem\u003eNew Republic\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e, and elsewhere, Kirsch shows how literature can illuminate questions of meaning, ethics, and politics, and how those questions shape the way we take pleasure in art. In Rocket and Lightship he examines the work and life of writers past and present, from intellectuals Susan Sontag, Hannah Arendt, and Walter Benjamin to novelists including E. M. Forster, David Foster Wallace, and Zadie Smith. Kirsch quotes G. M. Hopkins: \"Nor rescue, only rocket and lightship, shone.\" So shines literature, in these unflinchingly bold and provocative essays--as an illuminating, regenerative, and immortalizing force.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Adam Kirsch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 039324346X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780393243468\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/17\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.75h x 5.83w x 1.04d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/15\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/15\/2014 pg. 12\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/09\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/28\/2014 pg. 26","brand":"Adam Kirsch","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48064859242751,"sku":"9780393243468","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b5e0558b-b8ae-4bfc-8a61-59b8a851047e.jpg?v=1768671515","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/rocket-and-lightship-adam-kirsch-9780393243468","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}