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20%OFFGeoff Dyer - Out of Sheer Rage: In the Shadow of D. H. Lawrence - 9781782115137 - 9781782115137
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Out of Sheer Rage: In the Shadow of D. H. Lawrence

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Description for Out of Sheer Rage: In the Shadow of D. H. Lawrence paperback. Presents the study of the combination of bad temper, procrastination and the uncanny power of obliquity. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 20. Weight in Grams: 194.

Sitting down to write a book about his hero D.H. Lawrence, Geoff Dyer finds himself compelled to write about anything else. He is in fact compelled to do more or less anything else instead of write. In Sicily he is too preoccupied by his hatred of seafood to follow the great writer's footsteps; in Mexico he cannot get beyond a drug-induced erotic fantasy on a nudist beach . . . And yet, incredibly, this attempt to write a 'sober academic study' reveals the hold Lawrence and his work still exert on us today.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Canongate Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782115137
SKU
9781782115137
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Ref
99-1

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 Out of Sheer Rage: In the Shadow of D. H. Lawrence
An intriguing, magnetic, genre-rattling book

The Times

Marvellous . . . a glorious truant from study . . . gives a better picture of (Lawrence) than any biography I know.
James Wood

Guardian

The kind of book that gives literary criticism a bad name. Hilarious!
John ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Out of Sheer Rage: In the Shadow of D. H. Lawrence


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