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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Geoff DyerPublisher: Canongate Books Imprint: Canongate Books Edition: Main Dimensions: Width: 12.90cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 19.80cm Weight: 0.261kg ISBN: 9780857864031ISBN 10: 0857864033 Pages: 384 Publication Date: 07 March 2013 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviews* Dyer's books are among the most fresh and eclectic in contemporary letters... Because he has fought to preserve his own voice and style, never allowing them to become flattened into cliche; because he writes about his enthusiasms, Dyer's has long been a name to look out for amid the gossip, prurient interviews and celebrity trash of modern newspapers. That he exists at all, in such ruthlessly materialistic times - unattached to any newspaper, always on the move - is a celebration in itself. This book, a tribute to his persistence and originality, deserves to have a long after-life -- Jason Cowley The Times * One of the most rewarding books to emerge from Britain in the last twelve months, 'fiction' and 'non-fiction' alike Modern Painters * Pick up this book and you will find something interesting on every page Independent * For the sheer diversity of his passions, his career is already hard to beat -- Simon Garfield Financial Times Dyer's books are among the most fresh and eclectic in contemporary letters... Because he has fought to preserve his own voice and style, never allowing them to become flattened into cliche; because he writes about his enthusiasms, Dyer's has long been a name to look out for amid the gossip, prurient interviews and celebrity trash of modern newspapers. That he exists at all, in such ruthlessly materialistic times - unattached to any newspaper, always on the move - is a celebration in itself. This book, a tribute to his persistence and originality, deserves to have a long after-life -- Jason Cowley * The Times * One of the most rewarding books to emerge from Britain in the last twelve months, 'fiction' and 'non-fiction' alike * Modern Painters * Pick up this book and you will find something interesting on every page * Independent * For the sheer diversity of his passions, his career is already hard to beat -- Simon Garfield * Financial Times * Author InformationGeoff 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. He lives in London. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |