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  | | The Missing of the Somme(1st Edition) (Vintage) by Geoff Dyer Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2011 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-307-74297-1, ISBN: 0-307-74297-0 "Geoff Dyer's classic "The Missing of the Somme" is part travelogue, part meditation on remembrance--and completely, unabashedly, unlike any other book about the First World War. Through visits to battlefields and memorials, he examines the way that photographs and film, poetry and prose determined--sometimes in advance of the events described--the way we would think about and remember the war. With his characteristic originality and ins ..." |
 | | Otherwise Known as the Human Condition(1st Edition) Selected Essays and Reviews by Geoff Dyer Paperback, 432 Pages, Published 2011 by Graywolf Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55597-579-1, ISBN: 1-55597-579-8 "*Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism**A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice**A New York Times Top 10 Nonfiction Book of the Year, as selected by Dwight Garner*Geoff Dyer has earned the devotion of passionate fans on both sides of the Atlantic through his wildly inventive, romantic novels as well as several brilliant, uncategorizable works of nonfiction. All the while he has been writing some of the witti ..." |
 | | Zona A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room (Vintage) by Geoff Dyer Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2012 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-307-39031-8, ISBN: 0-307-39031-4 "Zona A "Huffington Post" Best Book of the Year There is no other writer at work today like the award-winning Geoff Dyer. Here he embarks on an investigation into Andrei Tarkovsky's "Stalker, " the masterpiece of cinema that has haunted him since he first saw it thirty years ago. Full description" |
 | | The Colour of Memory(Updated) A Novel by Geoff Dyer Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2014 by Graywolf Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55597-677-4, ISBN: 1-55597-677-8 "The first novel, in revised form, from "possibly the best living writer in Britain" (The Daily Telegraph)In The Colour of Memory, six friends plot a nomadic course through their mid-twenties as they scratch out an existence in near-destitute conditions in 1980s South London. They while away their hours drinking cheap beer, landing jobs and quickly squandering them, smoking weed, dodging muggings, listening to Coltrane, finding and losin ..." |
 | | 'Broadsword Calling Danny Boy' Watching 'Where Eagles Dare' by Geoff Dyer Hardcover, 128 Pages, Published 2019 by Pantheon ISBN-13: 978-1-5247-4757-2, ISBN: 1-5247-4757-2 "From a writer of "derelict luminosity" (David Mitchell), a scene-by-scene exploration of Where Eagles Dare, one of cinema's most cherished and popular films, on the occasion of its 50th anniversary.Geoff Dyer has loved Where Eagles Dare since childhood. It is both a thrillingly realized Alpine World War II adventure with tough, compelling acting from its two great stars, Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood, and a flippant travesty, reduci ..." |
 | | White Sands Experiences from the Outside World by Geoff Dyer, Howard Hughes Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2016 by Canongate Books Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-78211-740-7, ISBN: 1-78211-740-7 "SHORTLISTED FOR STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEARFrom a trip to The Lightning Field in New Mexico, to chasing Gauguin's ghost in French Polynesia, White Sands is a creative exploration of why we travel. Episodic, wide-ranging and funny, Geoff Dyer blends travel writing, essay, criticism and fiction with a smart and cantankerous wit that is unmatched. From one of the most original writers in Britain, this is a book for armchair tra ..." |
 | | Ten Poems About Art by Geoff Dyer Paperback, 24 Pages, Published 2019 by Candlestick Press 2019-08-21 ISBN-13: 978-1-907598-77-7, ISBN: 1-907598-77-4 |
 | | The Search(1st Edition) A Novel by Geoff Dyer Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2014 by Graywolf Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55597-678-1, ISBN: 1-55597-678-6 ""A short, brilliant novel, "The Search" offers more in 150 pages than most books twice that length." "The Guardian"""Walker meets Rachel at a glamorous party by the bay. When she turns up at his apartment two days later, there is a hint of erotic promise in the air. But it isn't Walker she wants at least not yet. Her husband, Malory, has gone missing, and she wants Walker to find him. So begins Walker's quest, as well as this beautiful ..." |
 | | Working the Room Essays and Reviews: 1999-2010 (Paperback) by Geoff Dyer Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2011 by Canongate Books Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-84767-937-6, ISBN: 1-84767-937-4 "Alive with insight, wit and Dyer's characteristic irreverence, this book offers a guide around the cultural maze, mapping a route through the worlds of literature, art, photography and music." |
 | | White Sands(Reprint) Experiences from the Outside World by Geoff Dyer Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2017 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-1-101-97012-6, ISBN: 1-101-97012-X "From “one of our most original writers” (Kathryn Schulz, New York magazine) comes an expansive and exacting book—firmly grounded but elegant, often hilarious, and always inquisitive—about travel, unexpected awareness, and the questions we ask when we step outside ourselves. Geoff Dyer’s restless search—for what? is unclear, even to him—continues in this series of fascinating adventures and pilgrimages: with a tour guide who may not be ..." |
 | | White Sands(1st Edition) Experiences from the Outside World by Geoff Dyer Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2016 by Pantheon ISBN-13: 978-1-101-87085-3, ISBN: 1-101-87085-0 "From “one of our most original writers” (Kathryn Schulz, New York magazine) comes an expansive and exacting book—firmly grounded but elegant, often hilarious, and always inquisitive—about travel, unexpected awareness, and the questions we ask when we step outside ourselves. Geoff Dyer’s restless search—for what? is unclear, even to him—continues in this series of fascinating adventures and pilgrimages: with a tour guide who may not be ..." |
 | | The Bad Side of Books(1st Edition) Selected Essays of D.H. Lawrence (New York Review Books Classics) by D.H. Lawrence, Geoff Dyer Paperback, 512 Pages, Published 2019 by Nyrb Classics ISBN-13: 978-1-68137-363-8, ISBN: 1-68137-363-7 "You could describe D.H. Lawrence as the great multi-instrumentalist among the great writers of the twentieth century. He was a brilliant, endlessly controversial novelist who transformed, for better and for worse, the way we write about sex and emotions; he was a wonderful poet; he was an essayist of burning curiosity, expansive lyricism, odd humor, and radical intelligence, equaled, perhaps, only by Virginia Woolf. Here Geoff Dyer, one ..." |
 | | 'Broadsword Calling Danny Boy' Watching 'Where Eagles Dare' by Geoff Dyer 128 Pages, Published 2019 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-1-5247-4758-9, ISBN: 1-5247-4758-0 "After I'd whizzed through the backlist I read the new ones in hardback, from the Hesters Way Library near my school, as soon as they were published: Bear Island, The Way to Dusty Death. I didn't read Breakheart Pass, which came out in 1974, ..." |
 | | White Sands Experiences from the Outside World by Geoff Dyer Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2017 by Canongate Books International Edition ISBN-13: 978-1-78211-742-1, ISBN: 1-78211-742-3 "SHORTLISTED FOR STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEARFrom a trip to The Lightning Field in New Mexico, to chasing Gauguin's ghost in French Polynesia, White Sands is a creative exploration of why we travel. Episodic, wide-ranging and funny, Geoff Dyer blends travel writing, essay, criticism and fiction with a smart and cantankerous wit that is unmatched. From one of the most original writers in Britain, this is a book for armchair tra ..." |
 | | White Sands Experiences from the Outside World by Geoff Dyer 256 Pages, Published 2016 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-1-101-87086-0, ISBN: 1-101-87086-9 "We walked out of the gate, found Min, the car and the driver, who was standing there in a white shirt, his hair slicked ... We drove for ten minutes until, at some unknown place in the city, Feng pulled over so that Li could get out. ... There was a time—it seemed to last from my mid-teens to early forties—when it was so difficult to get women's phone numbers that a night out was considered a major success if ..." |
 | | An Great Day at Sea Life Aboard the USS George H. W. Bush by Geoff Dyer, Chris Steele-Perkins Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2015 by Canongate Books International Edition ISBN-13: 978-1-78211-336-2, ISBN: 1-78211-336-3 "From a writer whose books succeed in either subverting or creating genres comes a unique look at an inaccessible world In November 2011, Geoff Dyer fulfilled a childhood dream of spending time on an aircraft carrier. Dyer's stay on the USS George Bush, on active service in the Arabian Gulf, proved even more intense, memorable, and frequently hilarious, than he could ever have hoped. In Dyer's hands, the warship becomes a microcosm for a ..." |
 | | Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi by Geoff Dyer Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2015 by Canongate Books Ltd International Edition ISBN-13: 978-1-78211-514-4, ISBN: 1-78211-514-5 "Jeff Atman, a journalist, is in Venice to cover the opening of the Biennale. He's expecting to see a load of art, go to a lot of parties and drink too many bellinis. He's not expecting to meet the spellbinding Laura, who will completely transform his few days in the city. So begins a story of erotic love and spiritual learning that will reach its conclusion amidst the ghats of Varanasi. Jeff Atman, a journalist, is in Venice to cover th ..." |
 | | Out of Sheer Rage Wrestling with D. H. Lawrence by Geoff Dyer 256 Pages, Published 2014 by North Point Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4668-6986-8, ISBN: 1-4668-6986-0 "The essence of Lawrence's life and writing is away from the notion of achieving some permanent state of unruffled serenity. Never content simply to record his transitory feel' ings and surges of emotion, Lawrence was always wanting to turn them into some permanent testimony, into a 'philoso' phy' — and no writer was temperamentally less suited to do so. Lawrence is at his best when he is recording his fleeting moods and impressions ..." |
 | | The Search A Novel by Geoff Dyer 176 Pages, Published 2014 by Graywolf Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55597-091-8, ISBN: 1-55597-091-5 "A Novel Geoff Dyer. Afterword. THE SEARCH WAS MY SECOND NOVEL, PUBLISHED IN BRITAIN IN 1993. The date is worth keeping in mind because, reading it again now, for the first time in twenty years, I realize that it is as clearly pre-digital as The Long Goodbye. Almost nothing that happens in the book makes sense in an era of cell phones, online bookings, digital cameras, and— most tellingly— search engines. Jeez, it's almost quaint. In ..." |
 | | Another Great Day at Sea Life Aboard the USS George H.W. Bush by Geoff Dyer 208 Pages, Published 2014 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-307-91159-9, ISBN: 0-307-91159-4 "I kept making models of later jets—the Dassault Mirage, the Blackburn Buccaneer, the English Electric Lightning among others—but I didn't know what they did or where or why they were deployed. They just flew incredibly fast and looked amazing on Perspex stands. My favourite model was the two-seater McDonnell F-4B Phantom, a jet that was both sleek and densely laden with armaments. And not just armaments: it was also dense with deca ..." |
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