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The Search
Geoff Dyer
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Description for The Search
Paperback. Walker is at a party where he meets Rachel. Two days later she turns up at his apartment. However, it's not Walker she wants but her husband Malory, who has gone missing. She asks Walker to find him. And as Walker's search grows in its weird intensity, it seems that somebody else is following, searching for him too. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 146 x 11. Weight in Grams: 126. 176 pages. Walker is at a party where he meets Rachel. Two days later she turns up at his apartment. However, it's not Walker she wants but her husband Malory, who has gone missing. She asks Walker to find him. And as Walker's search grows in its weird intensity, it seems that somebody else is following, searching for him too. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 204 x 146 x 11. Weight: 126.
Walker is at a party where he meets Rachel. Two days later she turns up at his apartment. However, it's not Walker she wants but her husband Malory, who has gone missing. She asks Walker to find him. So begins this strange, beautiful, road-movie of a novel that takes the hero across the vast landscape of middle America on the trail of a man he has never met. And as Walker's search grows in its weird intensity, it seems that somebody else is following, searching for him too.
Walker is at a party where he meets Rachel. Two days later she turns up at his apartment. However, it's not Walker she wants but her husband Malory, who has gone missing. She asks Walker to find him. So begins this strange, beautiful, road-movie of a novel that takes the hero across the vast landscape of middle America on the trail of a man he has never met. And as Walker's search grows in its weird intensity, it seems that somebody else is following, searching for him too.
Product Details
Publisher
Canongate Books
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857862730
SKU
V9780857862730
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99-99
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 ... Read more
Reviews for The Search
A short, brilliant novel, The Search offers more in 150 pages than most books twice that length
Guardian
As elegant as a mathematical theorem correctly expressed
Lucy Hughes-Hallett
Sunday Times
Dyer injects an almost magical randomness into what ought to be the most conventional of tales, and ... Read more
Guardian
As elegant as a mathematical theorem correctly expressed
Lucy Hughes-Hallett
Sunday Times
Dyer injects an almost magical randomness into what ought to be the most conventional of tales, and ... Read more