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Out of Sheer Rage

In the Shadow of D. H. Lawrence
By Geoff Dyer
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Out of Sheer Rage by Geoff Dyer is a unique blend of memoir and literary criticism, where the author embarks on an attempt to write a study on D. H. Lawrence. Instead, he finds himself caught up in a series of personal distractions and existential musings. The book explores themes of procrastination, the creative process, and the search for inspiration with wit and humour.
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You might enjoy this book if you appreciate a humorous and deeply introspective take on the struggle of writing and the complexities of procrastination. It appeals to readers interested in a witty, candid exploration of creativity set within the world of arts and culture.

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Out of Sheer Rage

'The funniest book I have ever read' - Steve Martin

'The funniest book I have ever read' Steve Martin

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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 writing.

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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Out of Sheer Rage by Geoff Dyer receives high praise for its originality and humour, with reviews highlighting its genre-defying nature and delightful exploration of the subject. It is lauded as a masterpiece and a potential winner for the funniest book of the year. Critics acclaim Dyer's intelligence, robust humour, and unique literary voice, making the book a standout in contemporary literature.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781782115137

Publisher: Canongate Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 05 March 2015

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Canongate Books

Edition: Main

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 17.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 190g

Pages: 272

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Arts & Culture Biography & Memoir Geoff Dyer Non-Fiction

About the Author

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. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages. He lives in London.

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