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Out of Sheer Rage Geoff Dyer

Out of Sheer Rage By Geoff Dyer

Out of Sheer Rage by Geoff Dyer


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Summary

'The funniest book I have ever read' Steve Martin

Out of Sheer Rage Summary

Out of Sheer Rage: In the Shadow of D. H. Lawrence by Geoff Dyer

Dyer was a talented young writer and determined to write a study of D.H.Lawrence. But when he sat down to write the book, he found himself distracted by . . . everything! Welcome to the world of Dyer! Gripped by indecision at every turn, he agonises over where to settle down to write, whether or not he should move in with his almost-girlfriend, and even which edition of Lawrence's poems to pack in his rucksack. In Out of Sheer Rage Dyer travels the world, providing fascinating insights into Lawrence's life and the continuing value of his work - and into the myriad anxieties that define the life of a writer.

Out of Sheer Rage Reviews

Quite possibly the best living writer in Britain * * Daily Telegraph * *
An intriguing, magnetic, genre-rattling book * * The Times * *
The kind of book that gives literary criticism a bad name. Hilarious! -- John Berger
If there was a prize for the year's funniest book then it would win hands down * * Independent on Sunday * *
A masterpiece * * Mail on Sunday * *
Marvellous . . . a glorious truant from study . . . gives a better picture of (Lawrence) than any biography I know. -- James Wood * * Guardian * *
A national treasure -- Zadie Smith
One of my favourite of all contemporary writers. I love his sense of the absurd, his pessimism mixed with robust good cheer, his beautifully crafted sentences, his jokes and his intelligence. -- Alain de Botton
Geoff Dyer is a true original - one of those rare voices in contemporary literature that never ceases to surprise, disturb and delight. Risky, breathtakingly candid, intellectual, cool, outrageous, laconic and sometimes shocking, Geoff Dyer is a must-read for our confused and perplexing times. -- William Boyd
[Out of Sheer Rage] gets the full Canongate Canons treatment from its new Edinburgh publishers this month; happy, happy news if ever there was any, O.O.S.R is vintage Dyer, and well worthy of this upgrade to 'modern classic' status. * * Dazed and Confused * *

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. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages. He lives in London.

Additional information

GOR004116008
9780857862341
0857862340
Out of Sheer Rage: In the Shadow of D. H. Lawrence by Geoff Dyer
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Canongate Books
20120202
272
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