| Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D. H. Lawrence Contributor(s): Dyer, Geoff (Author) |
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ISBN: 0312429460 ISBN-13: 9780312429461 Publisher: Picador USA OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2009 Annotation: Geoff Dyer had always wanted to write a book about D. H. Lawrence. He wanted, in fact, to write his "Lawrence book." The problem was, he had no idea what his "Lawrence book" would be though he was determined to write a "sober academic study." Luckily for the reader, he failed miserably. Out of Sheer Rage is a harrowing, comic, and grand act of literary deferral. At times a furious repudiation of the act of writing itself, this is not so much a book about Lawrence as a book about writing a book about Lawrence. As Lawrence wrote about his own study of Thomas Hardy, "It will be about anything but Thomas Hardy, I am afraid--queer stuff--but not bad." |
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| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - Biography & Autobiography | Historical - Literary Criticism | European - General |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.4" W x 8.1" (0.50 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 |
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| Publisher Description: FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD In the spirit of Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot and Alain de Botton's How Proust Can Change Your Life, Mr. Dyer's Out of Sheer Rage keeps circling its subject in widening loops and then darting at it when you least expect it . . . a wild book.--Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times Geoff Dyer was a talented young writer, full of energy and reverence for the craft, and determined to write a study of D. H. Lawrence. But he was also thinking about a novel, and about leaving Paris, and maybe moving in with his girlfriend in Rome, or perhaps traveling around for a while. Out of Sheer Rage is Dyer's account of his struggle to write the Lawrence book--a portrait of a man tormented, exhilarated, and exhausted. Dyer travels all over the world, grappling not only with his fascinating subject but with all the glorious distractions and needling anxieties that define the life of a writer. |
Contributor Bio(s): Dyer, Geoff: - Geoff Dyer is the author of Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi, among other novels, and several nonfiction books, including Out of Sheer Rage. He won a National Book Critics Circle Award in 2012 for Otherwise Known as the Human Condition. He lives in Los Angeles. |