Anglo-English Attitudes Geoff Dyer

Name: Anglo-English Attitudes By Geoff Dyer
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Anglo-English Attitudes by Geoff Dyer

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Summary

'Among the most original and talented writers of his generation' Independent on Sunday

Anglo-English Attitudes Summary

Anglo-English Attitudes by Geoff Dyer

Anglo-English Attitudes brings together Geoff Dyer's best journalism and other writing from 1984-99. There are studied meditations on photographers (Robert Capa, William Gedney, Cartier-Bresson), painters (Bonnard, Gauguin), musicians (Coltrane, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan), and close critical engagements with writers including Camus, Michael Ondaatje and Martin Amis. Also here are idiosyncratic reflections on boxing, comics, Airfix models and Action Man, and often hilarious accounts of his 'misadventures'.

Anglo-English Attitudes Reviews

Dyer's books are among the most fresh and eclectic in contemporary letters... Because he has fought to preserve his own voice and style, never allowing them to become flattened into cliche; because he writes about his enthusiasms, Dyer's has long been a name to look out for amid the gossip, prurient interviews and celebrity trash of modern newspapers. That he exists at all, in such ruthlessly materialistic times - unattached to any newspaper, always on the move - is a celebration in itself. This book, a tribute to his persistence and originality, deserves to have a long after-life -- Jason Cowley * * The Times * *
One of the most rewarding books to emerge from Britain in the last twelve months, 'fiction' and 'non-fiction' alike * * Modern Painters * *
Pick up this book and you will find something interesting on every page * * Independent * *
For the sheer diversity of his passions, his career is already hard to beat -- Simon Garfield * * Financial Times * *

About Geoff Dyer

Geoff Dyer is the author of Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi and three previous novels, as well as nine non-fiction books. Dyer has won the Somerset Maugham Prize, the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction, a Lannan Literary Award, the International Center of Photography's 2006 Infinity Award for writing on photography and the American Academy of Arts and Letters' E.M. Forster Award. In 2009 he was named GQ's Writer of the Year. He won a National Book Critics Circle Award in 2012 and was a finalist in 1998. In 2015 he received a Windham Campbell Prize for non-fiction. His books have been translated into twenty-four languages. He currently lives in Los Angeles where he is Writer in Residence at the University of Southern California.

Additional information

Sku

GOR004771525

ISBN 13

9780857864031

ISBN 10

0857864033

Title

Anglo-English Attitudes by Geoff Dyer

Author

Geoff Dyer

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Canongate Books

Year published

20130307

Number of pages

384

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