Out of Sheer Rage by Geoff Dyer
Sitting down to write a book on his hero D. H. Lawrence, Geoff Dyer finds a way instead to write about almost anything else. In Sicily he is more absorbed by his hatred of seafood than by the Lawrentian vibes; on the way to the D. H. Lawrence Birthplace Experience, he is sidetracked by the Ikea Experience; in Mexico to steep himself in the white-hot beauty of the landscape he cannot get beyond a drug-induced erotic fantasy on a nudist beach. Out of Sheer Rage is a richly comic study of the combination of bad temper, prevarication and base appetite that go into a book: if you have ever wanted to write, then reading Out of Sheer Rage may cure you!
The kind of book that gives literary criticism a bad nameHilarious! John Berger An intriguing, magnetic, genre-rattling book THE TIMES If there was a prize for the year's funniest book then it would win hands down INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY A masterpiece. MAIL ON SUNDAY
Geoff Dyer was born in 1958. His book BUT BEAUTIFUL, about jazz, won the Somerset Maugham Prize & was shortlisted for the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize. His essays & reviews appear in the INDEPENDENT, NEW STATESMAN & other periodicals. He writes regularly for the GUARDIAN & is a contributing editor of ESQUIRE.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780349108582 |
| ISBN 10 | 0349108587 |
| Title | Out of Sheer Rage |
| Author | Geoff Dyer |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 1998-05-07 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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