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Out of Sheer Rage: In the Shadow of D. H. Lawrence
Geoff Dyer
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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.
Out of Sheer Rage is a complete one-off, a richly comic study of the combination of bad temper, procrastination and the uncanny power of obliquity.
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 Letters' E.M. Forster Award. In 2009 he was named GQ's Writer of the Year. He won a National Book Critics Circle Award in 2012 and was a finalist in 1998. In 2015 he received a Windham Campbell Prize for non-fiction. His books have been translated into twenty-four languages. He currently lives in Los Angeles where he is Writer in Residence at the University of Southern California.
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 Berger A masterpiece
Mail on Sunday
If there was a prize for the year's funniest book then it would win hands down
Independent on Sunday
Quite possibly the best living writer in Britain
Daily Telegraph
A national treasure
Zadie Smith One of my favourite of all contemporary writers. I love his sense of the absurd, his pessimism mixed with robust good cheer, his beautifully crafted sentences, his jokes and his intelligence.
Alain de Botton Geoff Dyer is a true original - one of those rare voices in contemporary literature that never ceases to surprise, disturb and delight. Risky, breathtakingly candid, intellectual, cool, outrageous, laconic and sometimes shocking, Geoff Dyer is a must-read for our confused and perplexing times.
William Boyd [Out of Sheer Rage] gets the full Canongate Canons treatment from its new Edinburgh publishers this month; happy, happy news if ever there was any, O.O.S.R is vintage Dyer, and well worthy of this upgrade to 'modern classic' status.
Dazed and Confused
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 Berger A masterpiece
Mail on Sunday
If there was a prize for the year's funniest book then it would win hands down
Independent on Sunday
Quite possibly the best living writer in Britain
Daily Telegraph
A national treasure
Zadie Smith One of my favourite of all contemporary writers. I love his sense of the absurd, his pessimism mixed with robust good cheer, his beautifully crafted sentences, his jokes and his intelligence.
Alain de Botton Geoff Dyer is a true original - one of those rare voices in contemporary literature that never ceases to surprise, disturb and delight. Risky, breathtakingly candid, intellectual, cool, outrageous, laconic and sometimes shocking, Geoff Dyer is a must-read for our confused and perplexing times.
William Boyd [Out of Sheer Rage] gets the full Canongate Canons treatment from its new Edinburgh publishers this month; happy, happy news if ever there was any, O.O.S.R is vintage Dyer, and well worthy of this upgrade to 'modern classic' status.
Dazed and Confused