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  • af Geoff Dyer
    195,95 kr.

    Could it be that our deepest desire is for it all to be over? A book about the end of days from the award-winning author of Out of Sheer Rage and Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It

  • - A Book About Jazz
    af Geoff Dyer
    127,95 kr.

    'A copy ... ought to be on everybody's Desert Island' Independent

  • - Looking at Photographs
    af Geoff Dyer
    245,95 kr.

    A full-colour illuminated history of how photographs frame and change the world, from the award-winning author of The Ongoing Moment

  • - On Andrei Tarkovsky's 'Stalker'
    af Geoff Dyer
    127,95 kr.

    Ever wondered where your deepest desires might lead?

  • af Geoff Dyer
    212,95 kr.

  • af Geoff Dyer
    212,95 kr.

  • af Geoff Dyer
    127,95 kr.

    'Among the most original and talented writers of his generation' Independent on Sunday

  • - Essays and Reviews: 1999-2010
    af Geoff Dyer
    125,95 kr.

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

  • - In the Shadow of D. H. Lawrence
    af Geoff Dyer
    117,95 kr.

    'The funniest book I have ever read' Steve Martin

  • af Geoff Dyer
    117,95 kr.

    'A screamingly funny genre-defying feat . . . sublime' Maggie O'Farrell, Daily Telegraph

  • - A Romance
    af Geoff Dyer
    117,95 kr.

    'A beautifully composed rave generation rhapsody . . . dripping with eroticism.' Sunday Times

  • - Life Aboard the USS George H. W. Bush
    af Geoff Dyer
    127,95 kr.

    From a writer whose books succeed in either subverting or creating genres comes a unique look at an inaccessible world

  • af Geoff Dyer
    117,95 kr.

    Winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year

  • af Geoff Dyer
    114,95 kr.

  • af Geoff Dyer
    167,95 kr.

    One of Esquire's best books of spring 2022An extended meditation on late style and last works from "one of our greatest living critics" (Kathryn Schulz, New York).How and when do artists and athletes know that their careers are coming to an end? What if the end comes early in a writer's life? How to keep going even as the ability to do so diminishes? In this ingeniously structured investigation, Geoff Dyer sets his own encounter with late middle age against the last days and last works of writers, painters, musicians, and sports stars who've mattered to him throughout his life. With playful charm and penetrating intelligence, he considers Friedrich Nietzsche's breakdown in Turin, Bob Dylan's reinventions of old songs, J.M.W. Turner's proto-abstract paintings of blazing light, Jean Rhys's late-life resurgence, and John Coltrane's final works.Ranging from Burning Man to Beethoven, from Eve Babitz to William Basinski, and from Annie Dillard to Giorgio de Chirico, Dyer's study of last things is also a book about how to go on living with art and beauty-and the sudden rejuvenation offered by books, films, and music discovered late in life. Praised by Kathryn Schulz as "one of our greatest living critics, not of the arts but of life itself," and by Tom Bissell as "perhaps the most bafflingly great writer at work in the English language today," Dyer has now blended criticism, memoir, and badinage of the most serious kind into something entirely new. The Last Days of Roger Federer is a summation of Dyer's passions and the perfect introduction to his sly and joyous work.

  • af Geoff Dyer
    162,95 kr.

  • af Geoff Dyer
    172,95 kr.

  • af Geoff Dyer
    257,95 kr.

  • af Geoff Dyer
    125,95 kr.

  • af Geoff Dyer
    292,95 kr.

    One of Esquire's best books of spring 2022An extended meditation on late style and last works from "one of our greatest living critics" (Kathryn Schulz, New York).When artists and athletes age, what happens to their work? Does it ripen or rot? Achieve a new serenity or succumb to an escalating torment? As our bodies decay, how do we keep on? In this beguiling meditation, Geoff Dyer sets his own encounter with late middle age against the last days and last works of writers, painters, footballers, musicians, and tennis stars who've mattered to him throughout his life. With a playful charm and penetrating intelligence, he recounts Friedrich Nietzsche's breakdown in Turin, Bob Dylan's reinventions of old songs, J. M. W. Turner's paintings of abstracted light, John Coltrane's cosmic melodies, Bjorn Borg's defeats, and Beethoven's final quartets-and considers the intensifications and modifications of experience that come when an ending is within sight. Throughout, he stresses the accomplishments of uncouth geniuses who defied convention, and went on doing so even when their beautiful youths were over.Ranging from Burning Man and the Doors to the nineteenth-century Alps and back, Dyer's book on last things is also a book about how to go on living with art and beauty-and on the entrancing effect and sudden illumination that an Art Pepper solo or Annie Dillard reflection can engender in even the most jaded and ironic sensibilities. Praised by Steve Martin for his "hilarious tics" and by Tom Bissell as "perhaps the most bafflingly great prose writer at work in the English language today," Dyer has now blended criticism, memoir, and humorous banter of the most serious kind into something entirely new. The Last Days of Roger Federer is a summation of Dyer's passions, and the perfect introduction to his sly and joyous work.

  • af Geoff Dyer
    212,95 kr.

    People talk about love at first sight, about the way that men and women fall for each other immediately, but there is also such a thing as friendship at first sight.Luke moves to Paris with the idea of writing a novel but things get in the way. He becomes friends with a fellow expatriate, Alex; then he falls in love with Nicole. Alex meets Sahra, and the two couples form an intimacy that changes their lives. As they discover the clubs and cafés of the eleventh arrondissement, the four become inseparable, united by deeply held convictions about dating strategies, tunneling in P.O.W. films, and, crucially, the role of the Styrofoam cup in action movies. Experiencing the exhilarating highs of Ecstasy and sex, they reach a peak of rapture-the comedown from which is unexpected and devastating.In this book, Geoff Dyer fixes a dream of happiness-and its aftermath-with photographic precision. Boldly erotic and hauntingly elegiac, comic and romantic, Paris Trance confirms Dyer as one of England's most original and talented writers.

  • af Geoff Dyer
    192,95 kr.

  • af Geoff Dyer
    222,95 kr.

  • - On Where Eagles Dare
    af Geoff Dyer
    92,95 kr.

  • - Experiences from the Outside World
    af Geoff Dyer
    127,95 kr.

    In the spirit of Yoga For People Who Can't Be Bothered To Do It, his bestselling book about travel, Geoff Dyer is back on the road.

  • - The New Era of Competition with China
    af Geoff Dyer
    157,95 kr.

    By sea and on the airwaves, by dollar and yuan, a contest has begun that will shape the next century. China's rise has now entered a critical new phase, as it seeks to translate its considerable economic heft into a larger role on the world stage, challenging American supremacy. Yet he also shows why China may struggle to unseat the West - its ambitious designs are provoking anxiety, especially in Asia, while America's global alliances have deep roots. If Washington can adjust to a world in which it is not the sole dominant power, it may be able to retain its ability to set the global agenda.

  • - A Book About Jazz
    af Geoff Dyer
    167,95 kr.

    "May be the best book ever written about jazz."-David Thomson, Los Angeles TimesIn eight poetically charged vignettes, Geoff Dyer skillfully evokes the music and the men who shaped modern jazz. Drawing on photos, anecdotes, and, most important, the way he hears the music, Dyer imaginatively reconstructs scenes from the embattled lives of some of the greats: Lester Young fading away in a hotel room; Charles Mingus storming down the streets of New York on a too-small bicycle; Thelonious Monk creating his own private language on the piano. However, music is the driving force of But Beautiful, and wildly metaphoric prose that mirrors the quirks, eccentricity, and brilliance of each musician's style.

  • af Geoff Dyer
    127,95 kr.

    Republished to mark the centenary of the battle of the Somme Geoff Dyer's classic book is 'the great Great War book of our time' (Observer)

  • - Events Ashore
    af Geoff Dyer
    792,95 kr.

    Offers a trilogy of tautly rendered examinations of the spectacle of war, memory, and landscape. This book presents an exploration of the American military, a pursuit both personal and civic.

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