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Geoff Dyer Biografía y Hechos
Geoff Dyer (Cheltenham, 5 de junio de 1958) es un escritor británico. Biografía Nacido en un ambiente humilde, obtuvo una beca para estudiar inglés en el Corpus Christi College de la Universidad de Oxford. Una vez terminados sus estudios, marchó a Estados Unidos. Casado con Rebecca Wilson, comisaria de arte, trabajó como conservador jefe de la galería virtual Saatchi Art en Los Ángeles. Publicó en 1987 un ensayo sobre el escritor John Berger (Ways of Telling: Work of John Berger) y dos años más tarde su primera novela, titulada El color del recuerdo (The Colour of Memory, 1989) que tuvo gran éxito, como también ocurrió con su novela Ver Venecia, morir en Varanasi (Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi), aparecida en 2000.[1][2][3] En 1992 recibió el premio Somerset Maugham por su trabajo Jazz impro (But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz) y el Premio del Círculo de Críticos Nacional del Libro en 2011 por la selección de críticas Otherwise Known as the Human Condition. En marzo de 2014, hizo público que fue víctima de un accidente cerebrovascular menor, poco después de haberse trasladado a Venice, un barrio de Los Ángeles, en California. Es miembro de la Royal Society of Literature desde 2005. Obras Novelas The Colour of Memory (1989) The Search (1993) Paris Trance (1998) Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi (2009) Ensayo Ways of Telling: Work of John Berger (1987) But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz (1991) The Missing of the Somme (1994) Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D.H. Lawrence (1997) Anglo-English Attitudes: Essays, Reviews, Misadventures, 1984-98 (1999) Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It (2003) The Ongoing Moment (2005) Working the Room: Essays and Reviews: 1999-2009 (2010) Otherwise Known as the Human Condition: Selected Essays and Reviews (2011) Zona: A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room (2012) Another Great Day at Sea: Life Aboard the USS George H.W. Bush (2014) Referencias Vínculos externos (en inglés) Site de l’auteur Geoff Dyer en MusicBrainz. Descubre los libros populares de Geoff Dyer. Encuentra los 100 libros más populares de Geoff Dyer
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Checkmate or Top Trumps
Daniel Rey2017 RUNNERUP OF THE BODLEY HEAD | FINANCIAL TIMES ESSAY PRIZECuba is on the brink of seismic change – but in the age of postFidel, postObama and posttruth, the country’s future ha...
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The Ongoing Moment
Geoff DyerGreat photographs change the way we see the world; The Ongoing Moment changes the way we look at both.Focusing on the ways in which canonical figures like Alfred Stieglit...
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Los últimos días de Roger Federer
Geoff DyerUnapoderosareflexiónsobrehallarpropósitoenelocaso denuestrasvidas.«Dyer, que se ha propuesto escribir un libro sobre los finales, se siente atraído por la infinitud, por la forma e...
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Mac and His Problem
Enrique Vila-Matas, Margaret Jull Costa & Sophie HughesLONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE Enrique VilaMatas's new novel is perhaps his greatest: 'playful and funny and among the best Spanish novelists' Colm TóibínSixtys...
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The Ice Museum
Joanna KavennaJoanna Kavenna went north in search of the Atlantis of the Arctic, the mythical land of Thule. Seen once by an Ancient Greek explorer and never found again, mysterious Thule came t...
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Mind the Gaffe
R L TraskCan anything be described as 'very real'? There are so many obstacles on the way to writing clear, precise ('accurate'?) English ('english'?) that it is a wonder ('wander'?) anyone...
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The Letters of John Cheever
John CheeverWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JAY MCINERNEYJohn Cheever's letters offer a tantalising glimpse into the life of a writer. They include correspondence with his contemporaries, such as Phil...
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Professor Andersen's Night
Dag Solstad & Agnes Scott LangelandIt is Christmas Eve, and 55yearold Professor Pål Andersen is alone, drinking coffee and cognac in his living room. Lost in thought, he looks out of the window and sees a man strang...
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Threshold
Rob Doyle'A wild, sleazy, drugfilled odyssey ... Doyle's maverick novel deserves the accolades coming its way' Independent 'The best work to date from a writer who gets bett...
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The Great Explosion
Brian DillonThe Great Explosion by Brian Dillon: a masterful account of a terrible disaster in a remarkable placeIn April 1916, shortly before the commencement of the Battle of the Somme, a fi...
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Blind Spot
Teju ColeThe shadow of a tree in upstate New York. A hotel room in Switzerland. A young stranger in the Congo. In Blind Spot, readers will follow Teju Cole's inimitable artistic vision i...
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Armand V
Dag Solstad & Steven T Murray‘Solstad doesn’t write to please other people. Do exactly what you want, that’s my idea…the drama exists in his voice’ Lydia DavisArmand is a diplomat rising through the ranks of t...
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Up West
Pip GrangerDo you remember the West End of London during the 1950s? Did you live or work there? If so, I want to hear from you ...This was the advertisement author Pip Granger placed in a loc...
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T Singer
Dag Solstad & Tiina NunnallyThe new novel in English from one of Norway’s most celebrated writers. T Singer confronts indomitable loneliness in Solstad’s classic, heartbreaking yet darkly comic style.‘A kind ...
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The Case for Love
A K BenjaminAn exhilarating journey into the unfathomable depths of the human mind, from the acclaimed author of Let Me Not Be Mad.What does it take to care for a stranger? Really care.The Cas...
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Life with a Capital L
D. H. Lawrence & Geoff DyerA brilliantly varied new selection of D. H. Lawrence's essays, chosen and introduced by Geoff DyerFor D. H. Lawrence the novel was the pinnacle, 'the one bright book of life', ye...
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Let Me Not Be Mad
A K BenjaminLet Me Not Be Mad is an immersive, virtuosic and provocative investigation of madness, love and selfdestruction that defies categorisation. 'Exhilarating ... dazzling ... a miracul...
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Souvenir
Michael Bracewell'The best evocation I've read of London in the '80s' Neil Tennant'I loved Souvenir . . . it rescued some things for me a certain aesthetic, a philosophical engagement with time an...
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Impossible Owls
Brian PhillipsNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Hilarious, nimble, and thoroughly illuminating' Colson Whitehead, author of The Underground Railroad'Recalls the work of John Jeremiah Sullivan and the la...
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The Apartment
Greg BaxterThe Apartment, the astonishing first novel by Greg Baxter, is a tale of war and peace, friendship and aloneness.A man walks across an old European capital. Heavy snow falls. He has...
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Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes
Roland Barthes & Richard HowardThe only autobiography by the great Roland Barthes, philosopher, literary theorist and semiotician.This is the autobiography of one of the greatest minds of the twentieth century. ...
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The Bad Side of Books
D. H. Lawrence & Geoff DyerYou could describe D.H. Lawrence as the great multiinstrumentalist among the great writers of the twentieth century. He was a brilliant, endlessly controversial novelist who tra...
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The Myth of the Goddess
Anne Baring & Jules CashfordA comprehensive, scholarly accessible study, in which the authors draw upon poetry and mythology, art and literature, archaeology and psychology to show how the myth of the goddess...
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Hermit in Paris
Italo CalvinoItalo Calvino once said that he preferred to give false details about his biography since he felt that even the genuine data of a writer's life shed no light on the creative work. ...
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More Matter
John UpdikeMore Matter is a collection of John Updike's bestloved critical essays and reflections.From the journals of John Cheever to the Queen of England, More Matter is a lively discussion...
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Picnic Comma Lightning
Laurence ScottA BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'Laurence Scott … writes beautifully about the experience of reality in the digital age, and about how grief changes our perceptions … I’m besotted w...
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Kraftwerk
Uwe SchütteThe story of the phenomenon that is Kraftwerk, and how they revolutionised our cultural landscape'We are not artists nor musicians. We are workers.' Ignoring nearly all rock tradit...
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Blandings: Lord Emsworth and the Girlfriend
P.G. WodehouseEPISODE 3 IN A MAJOR BBC DRAMA STARRING TIMOTHY SPALL, DAVID WALLIAMS AND JENNIFER SAUNDERS Disaster at the annual fete at Blandings Castle.It is the annual fete at Blandings Castl...
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Selected Essays of John Berger
John BergerThe writing career of Booker Prize winner John Berger–poet, storyteller, playwright, and essayist–has yielded some of the most original and compelling examinations of art and lif...
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White Sands
Geoff DyerFrom “one of our most original writers” (Kathryn Schulz, New York magazine) comes an expansive and exacting bookfirmly grounded but elegant, often hilarious, and always inquisitive...
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Understanding a Photograph
John Berger & Geoff DyerJohn Berger's writings on photography are some of the most original of the twentieth century. This selection contains many groundbreaking essays and previously uncollected pieces w...
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On Photography
Susan SontagSusan Sontag's On Photography is a seminal and groundbreaking work on the subject.Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and ...
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Full Steam Ahead
Tabitha FlyteSophie wants money, big money. After twelve years working as a croupier on the Carribean cruise ships, she has devised a scheme that is her ticket to Freedomsville. But she can'...
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On Grief And Reason
Joseph BrodskyIn this richly diverse collection of essays, Joseph Brodsky casts a reflective eye on his experiences of early life in Russia and exile in America. With dazzling erudition, he expl...
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The Penguin Jazz Guide
Brian Morton & Richard CookThe Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings is firmly established as the world's leading guide to recorded jazz, a mine of fascinating information and a source of insightful often wittil...
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Good Things Happen Slowly
Fred HerschJazz could not contain Fred Hersch.Hersch’s prodigious talent as a sidemana pianist who played with the giants of the twentieth century in the autumn of their careers, including Ar...
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There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness
Carlo Rovelli, Erica Segre & Simon Carnell'A joy of a book enriching, illuminating, eclectic and far from a conventional science read' Richard Webb, New Scientist Books of the Year'Carlo Rovelli's imaginative rigour, his ...
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Every Day is for the Thief
Teju ColeA young man decides to visit Nigeria after years of absence. Ahead lies the difficult journey back to the family house and all its memories; meetings with childhood friends and abo...
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Arenas blancas
Geoff DyerDel autor de Pero hermoso, un magnífico libro de viajes sobre los lugares que visitamos y el poder de la memoria. Un precioso homenaje al arte y a la literatura.Geoff Dyer, viajero...
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Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed
Meghan DaumSixteen literary luminaries on the controversial subject of being childless by choice, in this critically acclaimed, bestselling anthologyOne of the most provocative and talkedabou...
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A Price for Everything
Mary SheepshanksSonia, Lady Duntan, loves the family seat rather more than she does her husband. The demands of marriage and four small children have conspired to over shadow her sense of selfeste...
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The Price of Glory
Alistair HorneThe battle of Verdun lasted ten months. It was a battle in which at least 700,000 men fell, along a front of fifteen miles. Its aim was less to defeat the enemy than bleed him to ...
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The Red Parts
Maggie NelsonSelected as a Book of the Year 2017 in the Guardian'Maggie Nelson’s short, singular books feel pretty light in the hand... But in the head and the heart, they seem unfathomably vas...
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Tormented Hope
Brian DillonTormented Hope is a book about mind and body, fear and hope, illness and imagination. It explores, in the stories of nine individuals, the relationship between mind and body as it ...
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Tunnel Vision
Kevin BreathnachTunnel Vision is a book unlike any other. A documentary of the narrator's postadolescent relationships; an account of time in Chemnitz, Bergen, Dublin, Paris, Gwangju, Munich and M...
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The Lost Pianos of Siberia
Sophy RobertsA SUNDAY TIMES BEST PAPERBACK OF 2021 Shortlisted for the 2021 Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year prize A criticallyacclaimed Sunday Times, Spectator and Independent Book of 2...
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The Paper Lantern
Will BurnsWhen future generations come to ask themselves when England lost it and what it lost, they will pick up The Paper Lantern' Michael Hofmann, TLS'A remarkable achievement in a book t...
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His Mistress's Voice
G C ScottSensing a powerful, animal drive within Tom that echoes her own, Beth decides to make Tom's initiation into bondage a swift one. His hesitant first steps soon quicken as he is ...
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Lois on the Loose
Lois PryceYoung and beautiful, Lois Pryce was a rising star at the BBC. Unbeknownst to her coworkers, Lois lived a parallel life as a biker babe with an overwhelming sense of wanderlust. So ...
