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Out of Sheer Rage

Geoff Dyer
Out of Sheer Rage Book PDF

Author : Geoff Dyer
Publisher : North Point Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781466869868

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FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD "In the spirit of Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot and Alain de Botton's How Proust Can Change Your Life, Mr. Dyer's Out of Sheer Rage keeps circling its subject in widening loops and then darting at it when you least expect it . . . a wild book."--Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times Geoff Dyer was a talented young writer, full of energy and reverence for the craft, and determined to write a study of D. H. Lawrence. But he was also thinking about a novel, and about leaving Paris, and maybe moving in with his girlfriend in Rome, or perhaps traveling around for a while. Out of Sheer Rage is Dyer's account of his struggle to write the Lawrence book--a portrait of a man tormented, exhilarated, and exhausted. Dyer travels all over the world, grappling not only with his fascinating subject but with all the glorious distractions and needling anxieties that define the life of a writer.

Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It

Geoff Dyer
Yoga for People Who Can t Be Bothered to Do It Book PDF

Author : Geoff Dyer
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-10
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780857863423

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Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It by Geoff Dyer Pdf

From Amsterdam to Cambodia, from Rome to Indonesia, from New Orleans to Libya, and from Detroit to Ko Pha-Ngan, Geoff Dyer finds himself both floundering about in a sea of grievances and finding moments of transcendental calm. This aberrant quest for peak experiences leads, ultimately, to the Black Rock Desert in Nevada, where, to quote Tarkovsky's Stalker, 'your most cherished desire will come true'.

Working the Room

Geoff Dyer
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Author : Geoff Dyer
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781847679666

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Working the Room by Geoff Dyer Pdf

Alive with insight, wit and Dyer's characteristic irreverence, this collection of essays offers a guide around the cultural maze, mapping a route through the worlds of literature, art, photography and music. Besides exploring what it is that makes great art great, Working the Room ventures into more personal territory with extensive autobiographical pieces - 'On Being an Only Child', 'Sacked' and 'Reader's Block', among other gems. Dyer's breadth of vision and generosity of spirit combine to form a manual for ways of being in - and seeing - the world today.

Otherwise Known as the Human Condition

Geoff Dyer
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Author : Geoff Dyer
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1555970265

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Otherwise Known as the Human Condition by Geoff Dyer Pdf

*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 wittiest, most incisive criticism we have on an astonishing array of subjects—music, literature, photography, and travel journalism—that, in Dyer's expert hands, becomes a kind of irresistible self-reportage. Otherwise Known as the Human Condition collects twenty-five years of essays, reviews, and misadventures. Here he is pursuing the shadow of Camus in Algeria and remembering life on the dole in Brixton in the 1980s; reflecting on Richard Avedon and Ruth Orkin, on the status of jazz and the wonderous Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, on the sculptor ZadKine and the saxophonist David Murray (in the same essay), on his heroes Rebecca West and Ryszard Kapus ́cin ́ski, on haute couture and sex in hotels. Whatever he writes about, his responses never fail to surprise. For Dyer there is no division between the reflective work of the critic and the novelist's commitment to lived experience: they are mutually illuminating ways to sharpen our perceptions. His is the rare body of work that manages to both frame our world and enlarge it.

But Beautiful

Geoff Dyer
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Author : Geoff Dyer
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780857863355

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But Beautiful by Geoff Dyer Pdf

Lester Young fading away in a hotel room; Charles Mingus storming down the streets of New York on a too-small bicycle; Thelonius Monk creating his own private language on the piano. . . In eight poetically charged vignettes, Geoff Dyer skilfully evokes the embattled lives of the players who shaped modern jazz. He draws on photos and anecdotes, but music is the driving force of But Beautiful and Dyer brings it to life in luminescent and wildly metaphoric prose that mirrors the quirks, eccentricity, and brilliance of each musician's style.

Paris Trance

Geoff Dyer
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Author : Geoff Dyer
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780857863409

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Paris Trance by Geoff Dyer Pdf

In Paris, two couples form an intimacy that will change their lives forever. As they discover the clubs and cafés of the eleventh arrondissement, the four become inseparable, united by deeply held convictions about dating strategies, tunnelling in P.O.W. films and, crucially, the role of the Styrofoam cup in American thrillers. Experiencing the exhilarating highs of Ecstasy and sex, they reach a peak of rapture - but the come-down is unexpected and devastating. Dyer fixes a dream of happiness - and its aftermath. Erotic and elegiac, funny and romantic, Paris Trance confirms Dyer as one of Britain's most original and talented writers.

The Ongoing Moment

Geoff Dyer
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Author : Geoff Dyer
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-08
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780857863386

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The Ongoing Moment by Geoff Dyer Pdf

Great photographs change the way we see the world; The Ongoing Moment changes the way we look at both. With characteristic perversity – and trademark originality - The Ongoing Moment is Dyer's unique and idiosyncratic history of photography. Seeking to identify their signature styles Dyer looks at the ways that canonical figures such as Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Walker Evans, Kertesz, Dorothea Lange, Diane Arbus and William Eggleston have photographed the same scenes and objects (benches, hats, hands, roads). In doing so Dyer constructs a narrative in which those photographers – many of whom never met in their lives – constantly come into contact with each other. It is the most ambitious example to date of a form of writing that Dyer has made his own: the non-fiction work of art.

Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi

Geoff Dyer
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Author : Geoff Dyer
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307378088

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Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi by Geoff Dyer Pdf

A New York Times Notable Book A Best Book of the Year: The Economist, The New Yorker, San Francisco Chronicle, Slate.com, and Time In Venice, at the Biennale, a jaded, bellini-swigging journalist named Jeff Atman meets a beautiful woman and they embark on a passionate affair. In Varanasi, an unnamed journalist (who may or may not be Jeff) joins thousands of pilgrims on the banks of the holy Ganges. He intends to stay for a few days but ends up remaining for months. Their journey—as only the irrepressibly entertaining Geoff Dyer could conjure—makes for an uproarious, fiendishly inventive novel of Italy and India, longing and lust, and the prospect of neurotic enlightenment.

J.D. Salinger

Thomas Beller
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Author : Thomas Beller
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780544261990

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J.D. Salinger by Thomas Beller Pdf

A spirited, deeply personal inquiry into the near-mythic life and canonical work of J. D. Salinger by a writer known for his sensitivity to the Manhattan culture that was Salinger's great theme.

Always Crashing in the Same Car: On Art, Crisis, and Los Angeles, California

Matthew Specktor
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Author : Matthew Specktor
Publisher : Tin House Books
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781951142636

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Always Crashing in the Same Car: On Art, Crisis, and Los Angeles, California by Matthew Specktor Pdf

A Best Book of the Year at The Atlantic Los Angeles Times Bestseller "[An] absorbing and revealing book. . . . nestling in the fruitful terrain between memoir and criticism." —Geoff Dyer, author of Out of Sheer Rage Blending memoir and cultural criticism, Matthew Specktor explores family legacy, the lives of artists, and a city that embodies both dreams and disillusionment. In 2006, Matthew Specktor moved into a crumbling Los Angeles apartment opposite the one in which F. Scott Fitzgerald spent the last moments of his life. Fitz had been Specktor’s first literary idol, someone whose own passage through Hollywood had, allegedly, broken him. Freshly divorced, professionally flailing, and reeling from his mother’s cancer diagnosis, Specktor was feeling unmoored. But rather than giving in or “cracking up,” he embarked on an obsessive journey to make sense of the mythologies of “success” and “failure” that haunt the artist’s life and the American imagination. Part memoir, part cultural history, part portrait of place, Always Crashing in the Same Car explores Hollywood through a certain kind of collapse. It’s a vibrant and intimate inspection of failure told through the lives of iconic, if under-sung, artists—Carole Eastman, Eleanor Perry, Warren Zevon, Tuesday Weld, and Hal Ashby, among others—and the author’s own family history. Through this constellation of Hollywood figures, he unearths a fascinating alternate history of the city that raised him and explores the ways in which curtailed ambition, insufficiency, and loss shape all our lives. At once deeply personal and broadly erudite, it is a story of an art form (the movies), a city (Los Angeles), and one person’s attempt to create meaning out of both. Above all, Specktor creates a moving search for optimism alongside the inevitability of failure and reveals the still-resonant power of art to help us navigate the beautiful ruins that await us all.

See/Saw

Geoff Dyer
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Author : Geoff Dyer
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781838852108

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See/Saw by Geoff Dyer Pdf

'Wide-ranging and eclectic’ TLS 'Seductively curious' Observer ‘A visual and intellectual journey' Herald See/Saw is an illuminating history of how photographs frame and change our perspectives. Starting from single images by the world’s most important photographers – from Eugène Atget to Alex Webb – Geoff Dyer shows us how to read a photograph, as he takes us through a series of close readings that are by turns moving, funny, prescient and surprising.

The Last Days of Roger Federer

Geoff Dyer
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Author : Geoff Dyer
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781838855758

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The Last Days of Roger Federer by Geoff Dyer Pdf

A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK In this endlessly stimulating investigation into ‘things coming to an end, artists’ last works, time running out’, Geoff Dyer sets his own encounter with late middle age against the last days and last achievements of writers, painters, athletes and musicians who’ve mattered to him throughout his life. He examines Friedrich Nietzsche’s breakdown in Turin, Bob Dylan’s reinventions of old songs, Beethoven’s final quartets, Jean Rhys’s return from the dead (while still alive) and much more.

Anglo-English Attitudes

Geoff Dyer
Anglo English Attitudes Book PDF

Author : Geoff Dyer
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-07
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780857863348

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Anglo-English Attitudes by Geoff Dyer Pdf

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'.

B & Me

J.C. Hallman
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Author : J.C. Hallman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781451682014

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B & Me by J.C. Hallman Pdf

“A love letter to the book as a physical object, a source of intellectual ardor, and a form of emotional salvation” (Salon)—and a nod to U and I, Nicholson Baker’s classic memoir about John Updike—from an award-winning author called “wonderfully bright” by The New York Times Book Review. Nearly twenty-five years ago, Nicholson Baker wrote U and I, the fretful and handwringing—but also groundbreaking—tale of his literary relationship with John Updike. U and I inspired a whole sub-genre of engaging writing about reading, but what no story of this type has ever done is tell its tale from the moment of conception, that moment when you realize that there is writer out there in the world that you must read. B & Me is that story, the story of J.C. Hallman discovering and reading Nicholson Baker…and discovering himself in the process. Our relationship to books in the digital age, the role of art in an increasingly commodified world, the power great writing has to change us, these are at the core of Hallman’s investigation of Baker—questions he’s grappled with, values he’s come to doubt. But in reading Baker’s work, Hallman discovers the key to overcoming the malaise that had been plaguing him, through the books themselves and what he finds and contemplates in his attempts to understand them and their enigmatic author. B & Me is literary self-archaeology: an irreverent, incisive story of one reader’s desperate quest to restore passion to literature, and all the things he learns along the way. “A wide-ranging and idiosyncratic career survey for Nicholson Baker’s work, a love letter to the act of reading, and a commentary on the modern novel, this is a book that readers will absolutely adore” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).

The Missing of the Somme

Geoff Dyer
The Missing of the Somme Book PDF

Author : Geoff Dyer
Publisher : Picador USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781250353269

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The Missing of the Somme by Geoff Dyer Pdf

A deeply personal meditation on remembrance, art, and World War I by the legendary Geoff Dyer, reissued with a new introduction by Drew Gilpin Faust 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, Geoff Dyer 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 insight, Dyer untangles and reconstructs the network of myth and memory that illuminates our understanding of, and relationship to, the Great War. Reissued with a new introduction, The Missing of the Somme stands as one of Dyer’s classic works.