Another Great Day At Sea

In November 2011, Geoff Dyer fulfilled a childhood dream of spending time on an aircraft carrier. Dyer's stay on the USS George Bush , on active service in the Arabian Gulf, proved even more intense, memorable, and frequently hilarious, than he could ever have hoped. In Dyer's hands, the warship becomes a microcosm for a stocktaking of modern Western life: religion, drugs, chauvinism, farting, gyms, steaks, prayer, parental death, relationships and how to have a beach party with 5000 people on a giant floating hunk of steel. Piercingly perceptive and gloriously funny, this is a unique book about work, war and entering other worlds.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Geoff Dyer is an award-winning author of four novels and numerous non-fiction books, including Out of Sheer Rage, Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It, Zona and, most recently, See/Saw. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Science, Dyer lives in Los Angeles, where he is Writer in Residence at the University of Southern California. His books have been translated into twenty-four languages.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Geoff Dyer, Dyer Geoff
• Mitarbeit: Chris Steele-Perkins (Fotografien), Steele-Perkins Chris (Fotografien)
• Verlag: Canongate Books
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 05.03.2015
• EAN: 9781782113362
• ISBN: 978-1-78211-336-2
• Seiten: 208
• Abmessung: 128 mm x 198 mm x 14 mm
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur > Briefe, Tagebücher; Memoirs, Naval forces & warfare, Military vehicles, Naval forces and warfare, Ships and boats: general interest