Out of Sheer Rage In the Shadow of D. H. Lawrence
- 5 Mar 2015
- 9781782115137
- £9.99
- 272 pp
- 129×198mm
- 25 Apr 2019
- 9781786894113
- £20.99
- 7 hrs 14 min
- 2 Feb 2012
- 9780857863393
- £7.99
- 272 pp
In a few words
‘The funniest book I have ever read’ Steve Martin
In a few words
‘The funniest book I have ever read’ Steve Martin
In a few words
‘The funniest book I have ever read’ Steve Martin
An intriguing, magnetic, genre-rattling book
Marvellous . . . a glorious truant from study . . . gives a better picture of (Lawrence) than any biography I know.
James Wood
GuardianAn intriguing, magnetic, genre-rattling book
Marvellous . . . a glorious truant from study . . . gives a better picture of (Lawrence) than any biography I know
James Wood
GuardianQuite possibly the best living writer in Britain
An intriguing, magnetic, genre-rattling book
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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.
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the book
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.
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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 should move in with his almost-girlfriend, and even which edition of Lawrence’s poems to pack in his rucksack.
In Out of Sheer Rage Dyer travels the world, providing fascinating insights into Lawrence’s life and the continuing value of his work – and into the myriad anxieties that define the life of a writer.
The kind of book that gives literary criticism a bad name. Hilarious!
John Berger
A masterpiece
If there was a prize for the year's funniest book then it would win hands down
Quite possibly the best living writer in Britain
The kind of book that gives literary criticism a bad name. Hilarious!
John Berger
A masterpiece
If there was a prize for the year's funniest book then it would win hands down
Quite possibly the best living writer in Britain
The kind of book that gives literary criticism a bad name. Hilarious!
John Berger
If there was a prize for the year's funniest book then it would win hands down
A masterpiece
Marvellous . . . a glorious truant from study . . . gives a better picture of (Lawrence) than any biography I know.
James Wood
Guardian