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Anglo-English Attitudes by Geoff Dyer
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"Anglo-English Attitudes" brings together Geoff Dyer's best journalism and other writing from 1984-99. There are studied meditations on photographers (Robert Capa, William Gedney, Cartier-Bresson), painters (Bonnard, Gauguin), musicians (Coltrane, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan), and close critical engagements w ...Show more
Another Great Day at Sea by Geoff Dyer
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
As a child Geoff Dyer spent long hours making and blotchily painting model fighter planes. So the adult Dyer jumped at the chance of a residency aboard an aircraft carrier. Another Great Day at Sea chronicles Dyer's experiences on the USS George H.W. Bush as he navigates the routines and protocols of 'c ...Show more
But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz by Geoff Dyer
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Lester Young fading away in a hotel room; Charles Mingus storming down the streets of New York on a too-small bicycle; Thelonius Monk creating his own private language on the piano... In eight poetically charged vignettes, Geoff Dyer skilfully evokes the embattled lives of the players who shaped modern ...Show more
Contest Of The Century: The New Era of Competition with China by Geoff Dyer [No relation]
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Description: By sea and on the airwaves, by dollar and yuan, a contest has begun that will shape the next century. China's rise has now entered a critical new phase, as it seeks to translate its considerable economic heft into a larger role on the world stage, challenging American supremacy. Yet he als ...Show more
Out of Sheer Rage: In the Shadow of D. H. Lawrence by Geoff Dyer
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The Canons | Reading Level: very good
Dyer was a talented young writer and determined to write a study of D.H.Lawrence. But when he sat down to write the book, he found himself distracted by ...everything! Welcome to the world of Dyer! Gripped by indecision at every turn, he agonises over where to settle down to write, whether or not he sho ...Show more
Out of Sheer Rage - In the Shadow of D. H. Lawrence by Geoff Dyer
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 Mexi ...Show more
Paris Trance: A Romance by Geoff Dyer
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'People talk about love at first sight, about the way that men and women fall for each other immediately, but there is also such a thing as friendship at first sight.' In Paris, two couples form an intimacy that will change their lives forever. As they discover the clubs and cafes of the eleventh arro ...Show more
The Search by Geoff Dyer
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Walker is at a party where he meets Rachel. Two days later she turns up at his apartment. However, it's not Walker she wants but her husband Malory, who has gone missing. She asks Walker to find him. So begins this strange, beautiful, road-movie of a novel that takes the hero across the vast landscape o ...Show more
Working The Room - Essays and Reviews - 1999-2010 by Geoff Dyer
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Alive with insight, wit and Dyer's characteristic irreverence, this collection of essays offers a guide around the cultural maze, mapping a route through the worlds of literature, art, photography and music.Besides exploring what it is that makes great art great, Working the Room ventures into more pers ...Show more
Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It by Geoff Dyer
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From Amsterdam to Cambodia, from Rome to Indonesia, from New Orleans to Libya and from Detroit to Ko Pha-Ngan, Geoff Dyer finds himself both floundering about in a sea of grievances and finding moments of transcendental calm. This aberrant quest for peak experiences leads, ultimately, to the Black Rock ...Show more
Zona: A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room by Geoff Dyer
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Geoff Dyer, described by the Daily Telegraph as 'possibly the best living writer in Britain', takes on his biggest challenge yet: unlocking the film that has obsessed him all his adult life. Magnificently unpredictable and hilarious (and surely one of the most unusual books ever written about cinema), Z ...Show more
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