The Missing of the Somme Geoff Dyer

Name: The Missing of the Somme By Geoff Dyer
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The Missing of the Somme by Geoff Dyer

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Summary

Republished to mark the centenary of the battle of the Somme Geoff Dyer's classic book is 'the great Great War book of our time' (Observer)

The Missing of the Somme Summary

The Missing of the Somme by Geoff Dyer

The Missing of the Somme has become a classic meditation upon war and remembrance. It weaves a network of myth and memory, photos and films, poetry and sculptures, graveyards and ceremonies that illuminate our understanding of, and relationship to, the Great War.

The Missing of the Somme Reviews

The great Great War book of our time * * Observer * *
Articulates a response to the Great War which many feel, but no one has analysed so scrupulously * * Spectator * *
A penetrating meditation upon war and remembrance * * Daily Telegraph * *
Dyer is excellent on the different ambitions and effects of municipal memorials, and on photographs and paintings -- Sebastian Faulks * * Mail on Sunday * *
A gentle, patient, loving book. It is about mourning and memory, about how the Great War has been represented - and our sense of it shaped and defined - by different artistic media * * Guardian * *

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

GOR007803246

ISBN 13

9781782119265

ISBN 10

1782119264

Title

The Missing of the Somme by Geoff Dyer

Author

Geoff Dyer

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Canongate Books Ltd

Year published

2016-06-30

Number of pages

240

Prizes

N/A

Cover note

Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.

Note

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