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Another Great Day at Sea by Geoff Dyer
Category: Military
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
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon - A Journey Through Yugoslavia by Rebecca West; Geoff Dyer (Introduction by)
Category: History | Series: Canons Ser.
A travel literature classic. Introduced by Geoff Dyer: 'As a book about Yugoslavia it's a kind of metaphysical Lonely Planet that never requires updating'
'Broadsword Calling Danny Boy': On Where Eagles Dare by Geoff Dyer
Category: Performing Arts
Where Eagles Dareis both a thrillingly realized Alpine Second World War adventure with tough, compelling acting from its two great stars, Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood, and a flippant travesty, infantilizing the central disaster in Europe's modern history in favour of huge explosions and camp SS off ...Show more
But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz by Geoff Dyer
Category: Classics
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
But Beautiful - A Book about Jazz by Geoff Dyer
Category: Performing Arts
"May be the best book ever written about jazz." David Thomson, Los Angeles TimesIn eight poetically charged vignettes, Geoff Dyer skillfully evokes the music and the men who shaped modern jazz. Drawing on photos, anecdotes, and, most important, the way he hears the music, Dyer imaginatively reconstructs ...Show more
Contest Of The Century: The New Era of Competition with China by Geoff Dyer [No relation]
Category: Business
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
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi by Geoff Dyer
Category: Fiction
Jeff Atman, a journalist, is in Venice to cover the opening of the Biennale. He's expecting to see a load of art, go to a lot of parties and drink too many bellinis. He's not expecting to meet the spell-binding Laura, who will completely transform his few days in the city. Another city, another assignme ...Show more
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi by Geoff Dyer
Category: Fiction
Ah Venice! The canals, palazzos, gondoliers, vaporetti...the bellinis. Jeff Atman, hack writer, is in town for the Biennale. Ostensibly to fulfil a freelance commission, actually to attend as many parties and soak up as much free booze as logistically possible. Then he meets Laura. Suddenly, amid the co ...Show more
Out of Sheer Rage - In the Shadow of D. H. Lawrence by Geoff Dyer
Category: Non-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
See/Saw: Looking at Photographs by Geoff Dyer
Category: Photography
A full-colour illuminated history of how photographs frame and change the world, from the award-winning author of The Ongoing Moment.
See/Saw: Looking at Photographs by Geoff Dyer
Category: Photography
An illuminated history of how photographs frame and change the world, from the award-winning author of The Ongoing Moment.