Geoff Dyer
White Sands
Experiences from the Outside World
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From one of our most original writers (Kathryn Schulz, New York magazine) comes an expansive and exacting book-firmly grounded but elegant, often hilarious, and always inquisitive-about travel, unexpected awareness, and the questions we ask when we step outside ourselves. Geoff Dyer's restless search-for what? is unclear, even to him-continues in this series of fascinating adventures and pilgrimages: with a tour guide who may not be a tour guide in the Forbidden City in Beijing; with friends in New Mexico, where D. H. Lawrence famously claimed to have had his greatest experience from the outside world; with a hitchhiker picked up on the way…
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From one of our most original writers (Kathryn Schulz, New York magazine) comes an expansive and exacting book-firmly grounded but elegant, often hilarious, and always inquisitive-about travel, unexpected awareness, and the questions we ask when we step outside ourselves. Geoff Dyer's restless search-for what? is unclear, even to him-continues in this series of fascinating adventures and pilgrimages: with a tour guide who may not be a tour guide in the Forbidden City in Beijing; with friends in New Mexico, where D. H. Lawrence famously claimed to have had his greatest experience from the outside world; with a hitchhiker picked up on the way from White Sands; with Don Cherry (or a photo of him, at any rate) at the Watts Towers in Los Angeles. Weaving stories about places to which he has recently traveled with images and memories that have persisted since childhood, Dyer tries to work out what a certain place-a certain way of marking the landscape-means; what it's trying to tell us; what we go to it for.With 4 pages of full-color illustrations.
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-101-87085-3
- EAN: 9781101870853
- Produktnummer: 18838827
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Abbildungen: Farb. Abb.
Über den Autor
A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Geoff Dyer has received the Somerset Maugham Award, the E. M. Forster Award, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism, and, in 2015, the Windham Campbell Prize for non-fiction. The author of four novels and nine works of non-fiction, Dyer is writer in residence at the University of Southern California and lives in Los Angeles. His books have been translated into twenty-four languages. www.geoffdyer.com
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