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Working the Room

Essays and Reviews: 1999-2010
By Geoff Dyer
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Working the Room is a lively collection of essays by Geoff Dyer that navigates the intricate worlds of literature, art, photography, and music. With sharp insight and wit, Dyer investigates what defines great art while also offering personal reflections in essays such as 'On Being an Only Child', 'Sacked', and 'Reader's Block'. His distinctive voice combines a broad cultural vision with heartfelt autobiographical elements, creating a compelling manual on perception and existence in the modern world.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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This book will appeal to readers interested in cultural criticism, autobiographical essays, and literary explorations of art and music. Fans of thoughtful, witty, and elegant prose, as well as those who appreciate personal reflections entwined with broader cultural insights, will find Working the Room an enriching and entertaining read.

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'Dyer is becoming a character just as arch and seductive as that professional self-effacer from the previous generation, Alan Bennett' Observer

'Dyer is becoming a character just as arch and seductive as that professional self-effacer from the previous generation, Alan Bennett' Observer

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Alive with insight, wit and Dyer's characteristic irreverence, this collection of essays offers a guide around the cultural maze, mapping a route through the worlds of literature, art, photography and music.

Besides exploring what it is that makes great art great, Working the Room ventures into more personal territory with extensive autobiographical pieces—'On Being an Only Child', 'Sacked' and 'Reader's Block', among other gems. Dyer's breadth of vision and generosity of spirit combine to form a manual for ways of being in—and seeing—the world today.

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Praised as "shrewd, funny, original" by Andrew Motion in the Guardian, and hailed as "a national treasure" by Zadie Smith, Dyer's writing is celebrated for being both engrossing and conversational. Critics admire his ability to blend absurdity with good cheer, crafting beautifully phrased, witty essays. Will Self of the Financial Times compares his style to Orwell, highlighting his versatility from personal anecdotes to cultural commentary. The Observer and William Boyd commend Dyer as a unique and essential voice for contemporary literature, marked by humour, intelligence, and originality.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781782115113

Publisher: Canongate Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 05 March 2015

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Canongate Books

Edition: Main

Illustration: 8pp colour inset

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 30.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 200.0mm

Weight: 301g

Pages: 432

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Arts & Culture Biography & Memoir Education & Reference 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 seven other non-fiction books. Dyer has won the Somerset Maugham Prize, the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction, a National Book Critics Circle Award, a Lannan Literary Award, the International Centre 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 lives in London.

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