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Overview"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." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Geoff DyerPublisher: St Martin's Press Imprint: St Martin's Press Dimensions: Width: 13.70cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 20.60cm Weight: 0.227kg ISBN: 9780312429461ISBN 10: 0312429460 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 10 November 2009 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviews<p> The funniest book I have ever read. --Steve Martin Painfully funny . . . sheer pleasure. --David Lodge, The Times (London) An intriguing, magnetic, genre-rattling book . --The Sunday Times (London) Marvelous . . . a glorious truant from study . . . gives a better picture of Lawrence than any biography I know. --James Wood, The Guardian (UK) Funny and self-laceratingly candid but with a nice Nabokovian spin on the fatal and irresistable allure of procrastination. --William Boyd, Books of the Year, The Spectator (UK) Dizzying fun . . . Dyer is several kinds of good writer. --David Kipen, San Francisco Chronicle <br> The kind of book that gives literary criticism a bad name. Hilarious! --John Berger<br> <p> The funniest book I have ever read. --Steve Martin Painfully funny . . . sheer pleasure. --David Lodge, The Times (London) An intriguing, magnetic, genre-rattling book . --The Sunday Times (London) Marvelous . . . a glorious truant from study . . . gives a better picture of Lawrence than any biography I know. --James Wood, The Guardian (UK) Funny and self-laceratingly candid but with a nice Nabokovian spin on the fatal and irresistable allure of procrastination. --William Boyd, Books of the Year, The Spectator (UK) Dizzying fun . . . Dyer is several kinds of good writer. --David Kipen, San Francisco Chronicle <br> The kind of book that gives literary criticism a bad name. Hilarious! --John Berger<br> Author InformationGeoff Dyer is the author of Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D.H. Lawrence, which was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, as well as Paris Trance: A Romance, and But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz. He lives in England Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |