Geoff Dyer

Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

'Geoff Dyer is a true original - one of those rare voices in contemporary literature that never ceases to surprise, disturb and delight. A must-read for our confused and perplexing times.'
William Boyd

'Jeff in Venice is serious fiction; learned travelogue; funny, arch and sad; a cynic's ascent into redemptive love and a stoner's descent into "gone-native" madness. It drips with Dyer's derelict luminosity.'
David Mitchell

'A raucous delight. Jeff in Venice is truly surprising - very funny, full of nerve, gutsy and delicious. Venice will never be the same again!'
Michael Ondaatje

'Dyer is very funny, in both senses - sort of like a post-modern Kingsley Amis. His writing is acute and bad tempered in the great British tradition, and his prose is the equal of anyone in the country. A national treasure.'
Zadie Smith

'A haunting and frequently hilarious meditation on love and art, life and music, death and bananas, all reflected and refracted in the twinned mirror pools of Venice and Varanasi. I loved this book.'
Joshua Ferris

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Februar 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847675750
• Artikelnr.: 39490117

Autorenporträt

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. In 2015 he received a Windham Campbell Prize for non-fiction. His books have been translated into twenty-four languages. He currently lives in Los Angeles where he is Writer in Residence at the University of Southern California.

Rezensionen

Dazzling and peculiar . . . A prodigious display of virtuosity. Jan Morris Guardian 20090404