Winter: Five Windows on the Season - Softcover

Adam Gopnik is the author of the international bestseller Paris to the Moon; Through the Children’s Gate: A Home in New York; Angels and Ages: A Short Book about Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life; and Steps Across the Water. He has been writing for The New Yorker since 1986. He is a three-time winner of the National Magazine Award for Essays and for Criticism and the George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he grew up in Montreal, Quebec. From 1995 to 2000, he lived in Paris. He now lives in New York City with his wife and their two children.

Winter is a soulful, studied meditation on the season that most captures our imagination . . . highly recommended. (Helen Gallagher New York Review of Books 2011-09-27)

...outstanding...[Adam Gopnik's] windows on winter illuminate varied aspects of the season, but, more profoundly, they also shed light on the human condition and our complex relationship with nature. (Barbara Carey Toronto Star 2011-10-02)

...charming...[Adam Gopnik's essays] provide a timely reminder that we still have something to learn about the season. (Joel Yanofsky Montreal Gazette 2011-10-01)

... a stream of endlessly entertaining insights and ideas -- a treasury of people and places and art. (Charles Wilkins Globe and Mail 2011-10-07)

... a book every Canadian needs to own. (Megan Power Chronicle Herald 2011-10-09)

... enlightening and full of discovery ... insightful ... (Alex Good Quill and Quire 2011-11-01)

... pleasurably readable ... the Massey selectors made an inspired choice for 2011. (Ian McGillis Montreal Review of Books 2011-10-20)

Gopnik melds familiar and arcane without talking down to readers ... thoughtful ... (Bill Rambo Winnipeg Free Press 2011-10-22)

[Adam Gopnik] is adept at connecting disparate subjects and ideas in interesting and unusual ways. (Geoff Allen Canadian Geographic 2011-12-01)

... beautifully written ... (Jan Johnston Columbian 2011-12-18)