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.
'[Dyer] is excellent on the different ambitions and effects of municipal memorials, an on photographs and paintings - the book is secured by his sensitivity to nuance, the range of his reading, and his willingness to contemplate something for as long it takes to understand it' - Sebastian Faulks, Mail on Sunday.'Articulates a response to the Great War which everybody feels but nobody has analysed so scrupulously.' - Spectator.
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780753827543 |
| ISBN 10 | 0753827549 |
| Title | The Missing of the Somme |
| Author | Geoff Dyer |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Orion Publishing Co |
| Year published | 2009-11-12 |
| Number of pages | 176 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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