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

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Sitting down to write a book about his hero D.H. Lawrence, Geoff Dyer finds himself compelled to write about anything else. He is in fact compelled to do more or less anything else instead of write. In Sicily he is too preoccupied by his hatred of seafood to follow the great writer's footsteps; in Mexico he cannot get beyond a drug-induced erotic fantasy on a nudist beach . . . And yet, incredibly, this attempt to write a 'sober academic study' reveals the hold Lawrence and his work still exert on us today. Out of Sheer Rage is a complete one-off, a richly comic study of the combination of bad temper, procrastination and the uncanny power of obliquity. ´The funniest book I have ever read´ Steve Martin Zusammenfassung 'The funniest book I have ever read' Steve Martin

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Product details

• Authors: Geoff Dyer, Dyer Geoff
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 05.03.2015
• EAN: 9781782115137
• ISBN: 978-1-78211-513-7
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 17 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, Prose: non-fiction, Biography and non-fiction prose