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The Missing of the Somme
Geoff Dyer
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Description for The Missing of the Somme
Paperback. Republished to mark the centenary of the battle of the Somme Geoff Dyer's classic book is 'the great Great War book of our time' (Observer) Num Pages: 240 pages, 21 b&w integrated illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJF; HBJD; HBLW; HBWN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 23. Weight in Grams: 170.
The Missing of the Somme has become a classic meditation upon war and remembrance. It weaves a network of myth and memory, photos and films, poetry and sculptures, graveyards and ceremonies that illuminate our understanding of, and relationship to, the Great War.
The Missing of the Somme has become a classic meditation upon war and remembrance. It weaves a network of myth and memory, photos and films, poetry and sculptures, graveyards and ceremonies that illuminate our understanding of, and relationship to, the Great War.
Product Details
Publisher
Canongate Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782119265
SKU
V9781782119265
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-37
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 Missing of the Somme
The great Great War book of our time
Observer
Articulates a response to the Great War which many feel, but no one has analysed so scrupulously
Spectator
A penetrating meditation upon war and remembrance
Daily Telegraph
Dyer is excellent on the different ... Read more
Observer
Articulates a response to the Great War which many feel, but no one has analysed so scrupulously
Spectator
A penetrating meditation upon war and remembrance
Daily Telegraph
Dyer is excellent on the different ... Read more