The Missing of the Somme
The Missing of the Somme
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The Missing of the Somme by Geoff Dyer
'Head bowed, rifle on his back, a soldier is silhouetted against the going down of the sun, looking at the grave of a dead comrade, remembering him. A photograph from the war, is also a photograph of the way the war will be remembered. It is a photograph of the future, of the future's view of the past. We will remember them.' Relying more on personal impressions than systematic analysis, Geoff Dyer weaves a network of myth and memory that illuminates our own relation to the past.
Geoff Dyer is the author of Ways of Telling, a critical study of John Berger; the novels The Colour of Memory and The Search; and But Beautiful: A book about Jazz, which won the 1992 Somerset Maugham Prize and was shirtlisted for the Mail on Sunday / John Llwellyn Rhys Memorial Prize. He writes regularly for the Guardian and Observer, and is contributing editor of Esquire magazine.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781842124505 |
| ISBN 10 | 1842124501 |
| Title | The Missing of the Somme |
| Author | Geoff Dyer |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Orion Publishing Co |
| Year published | 2001-07-19 |
| Number of pages | 176 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |