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. Geoff Dyer's classic book is an original and personal 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.
Articulates a response to the Great War which many feel, but no one has analysed so scrupulously * * Spectator * *
A gentle, patient, loving bookIt is about mourning and memory, about how the Great War has been represented - and our sense of it shaped and defined - by different artistic media . . . its textures are the very rhythms of memory and consciousness * * Guardian * *
A penetrating meditation upon war and remembrance * * Daily Telegraph * *
A gentle, patient, loving bookIt is about mourning and memory, about how the Great War has been represented - and our sense of it shaped and defined - by different artistic media . . . its textures are the very rhythms of memory and consciousness * * Guardian * *
A penetrating meditation upon war and remembrance * * Daily Telegraph * *
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. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages. He lives in London.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780857862723 |
| ISBN 10 | 0857862723 |
| Title | The Missing of the Somme |
| Author | Geoff Dyer |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Canongate Books |
| Year published | 2012-11-08 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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