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 Desert in Nevada, where, to quote Tarkovsky's Stalker, 'your most cherished desire will come true'.
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Weight: 174g
Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
Publication Date: 07 Jun 2012
Publisher: Canongate Books
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780857864062
About Geoff Dyer
Geoff Dyer is the author of Jeff in Venice Death in Varanasi and three previous novels as well as nine non-fiction books. Dyer has won the Somerset Maugham Prize the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction a Lannan Literary Award the International Center of Photography's 2006 Infinity Award for writing on photography and the American Academy of Arts and Letters' E.M. Forster Award. In 2009 he was named GQ's Writer of the Year. He won a National Book Critics Circle Award in 2012 and was a finalist in 1998. In 2015 he received a Windham Campbell Prize for non-fiction. His books have been translated into twenty-four languages. He currently lives in Los Angeles where he is Writer in Residence at the University of Southern California.
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