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Working the Room: Essays and Reviews: 1999-2010
Geoff Dyer
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Description for Working the Room: Essays and Reviews: 1999-2010
Paperback. Offers a collection of essays that offers a guide around the cultural maze, mapping a route through the worlds of literature, art, photography and music. Num Pages: 416 pages, 8pp colour inset. BIC Classification: DNF; JF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 34. Weight in Grams: 288.
Alive with insight, wit and Dyer's characteristic irreverence, this collection of essays offers a guide around the cultural maze, mapping a route through the worlds of literature, art, photography and music.
Besides exploring what it is that makes great art great, Working the Room ventures into more personal territory with extensive autobiographical pieces - 'On Being an Only Child', 'Sacked' and 'Reader's Block', among other gems. Dyer's breadth of vision and generosity of spirit combine to form a manual for ways of being in - and seeing - the world today.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Canongate Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782115113
SKU
9781782115113
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Ref
99-2
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 Working the Room: Essays and Reviews: 1999-2010
Shrewd, funny, original . . . very good company on the page.
Andrew Motion
Guardian
A national treasure.
Zadie Smith A seductively straightforward writer . . . like Orwell. Dyer writes engrossingly on everything from love of doughnuts to his sequestered working class childhood in Swindon.
Will Self
... Read more
Andrew Motion
Guardian
A national treasure.
Zadie Smith A seductively straightforward writer . . . like Orwell. Dyer writes engrossingly on everything from love of doughnuts to his sequestered working class childhood in Swindon.
Will Self
... Read more