Out of Sheer Rage: In the Shadow of D.H.Lawrence - Couverture souple

Dyer, Geoff

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0349108587 ISBN 13 : 9780349108582

Editeur : Abacus, 2003

Synopsis

Out of Sheer Rage When he became interested in literature at grammar school, it was D.H. Lawrence who fired Geoff Dyer's imagination and provided the inspiration for him to become a writer. In this work, Dyer retraces Lawrence's journeys, learning much about both Lawrence and matters close to his own heart. Full description

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

An intriguing, magnetic, genre-rattling book (The Times)

Marvellous . . . a glorious truant from study . . . gives a better picture of (Lawrence) than any biography I know. (James Wood Guardian)

The kind of book that gives literary criticism a bad name. Hilarious! (John Berger)

A masterpiece (Mail on Sunday)

If there was a prize for the year's funniest book then it would win hands down (Independent on Sunday)

Quite possibly the best living writer in Britain (Daily Telegraph)

A national treasure (Zadie Smith)

One of my favourite of all contemporary writers. I love his sense of the absurd, his pessimism mixed with robust good cheer, his beautifully crafted sentences, his jokes and his intelligence. (Alain de Botton)

Geoff Dyer is a true original - one of those rare voices in contemporary literature that never ceases to surprise, disturb and delight. Risky, breathtakingly candid, intellectual, cool, outrageous, laconic and sometimes shocking, Geoff Dyer is a must-read for our confused and perplexing times. (William Boyd)

[Out of Sheer Rage] gets the full Canongate Canons treatment from its new Edinburgh publishers this month; happy, happy news if ever there was any, O.O.S.R is vintage Dyer, and well worthy of this upgrade to 'modern classic' status. (Dazed and Confused)

Reading this book is the very opposite of a waste of time. It is an education and a delight (Guardian) --Guardian

Présentation de l'éditeur

When he became interested in literature at grammar school, it was D.H. Lawrence who fired Geoff Dyer's imagination, and it was the figure of Lawrence, the miner's son who spent his life travelling, living by his pen, which made it seem possible to him to become a writer. The work is as much a travel book as a biography, as Geoff Dyer retraces Lawrence's journeys and, using Lawrence's own writings, life, and crucially, photographs as clues, learns much about matters close to his own heart as he does about Lawrence himself.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Abacus
• Date d'édition: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0349108587
• ISBN 13: 9780349108582
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256