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Out of Sheer Rage
Wrestling With D. H. Lawrence
by Geoff Dyer
ISBN: 0865475334
ISBN-13: 9780865475335
Format: Hardcover
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Summary
After trying and failing to write a conventional biography of Lawrence, Geoff Dyer instead tackles his own writer's block by focusing on his personal responses to his subject. In the process, he travels to the places where Lawrence lived-Taos, Sardinia, Paris, Oaxaca, England-in an attempt to understand both Lawrence and himself.
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"This wrestling match with Lawrence reveals the author and his subject as finely matched opponents who ultimately shake hands on the nature of life and art....[A] fascinating symbiosis, which casts new light on creativity and the importance of destiny."
-- Kirkus
"The kind of book that gives literary criticism a bad name. Hilarious!" -- John Berger
"..Mr. Dyer has written...a wild book. Unsystematically and with great humor, it lights up what really matters to him about his hero." -- Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
-- New York Times
"[A] potently distilled treatise on literature, blessedly free of the academic cant that Dyer so disdains."
-- New Yorker
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Published date: 1998
Edition: 1th edition
Size: 6 x 8.75 inches
Weight: 0.9 pounds
Pages: 242
Publisher's Notes
Geoff Dyer had always wanted to write a book about D. H. Lawrence. He wanted, in fact, to write his "Lawrence book". The problem was he had no idea what his "Lawrence book" would be, though he was determined to write a "sober critical study". Luckily for the reader, he failed miserably. Out of Sheer Rage is a harrowing, comic, and grand act of literary deferral. Dyer doesn't much feel like reading the major Lawrence works and would just as soon be working on his novel, which, actually, he also doesn't feel like writing - he'd rather discuss Rilke, Camus, and Bernhard. At times a furious repudiation of the act of writing itself, this is not so much a book about Lawrence as a book about writing a book about Lawrence. Accompanied by his ever-patient almost-wife, Laura, Dyer hits the Lawrence trail - Taormina, Taos, Oaxaca, and Eastwood - with absolutely disastrous (and hilarious) results.
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Out of Sheer Rage : Wrestling with D. H. Lawrence
Dyer, Geoff
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1998. A very nice copy, clean and tight.. ISBN: 0865475334. First US Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. LAWRENCE D H DAVID HERBERT 1885 1930 LITERARY CRITICISM EUROPEAN ENGLISH IRISH SCOTTISH WELSH. ( more information)
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Out of Sheer Rage : Wrestling With D.H. Lawrence
Dyer, Geoff
North Point Press, 1998. Pages clean & bright. Binding tight.. ISBN: 0865475334 . US First Edition. Hard Cover. Mildly Edgeworn/Moderate Dust Jacket Wear. David Herbert Lawrence. English Novelists. 20th Century Novels. Literary Criticism.. ( more information)
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Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling With D. H. Lawrence
Dyer, Geoff
Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A.: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1998. fading on spine, clear plastic dustjacket has a chip missing rom front and a 1 1/2 inch tear near back flap. A Hardcover. Good/Good. ( more information)
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Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D.H. Lawrence
Dyer, Geoff
North Point Press, NY, 1997. First American Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine, immaculate, new book. A harrowing, comic, and grand act of literary deferral. Dyer hits the Lawrence trail, Taormina, Taos, Oaxaca, and Eastwood. Study of Lawrence. 1 ISBN: 0865475334. ( more information)
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OUT OF SHEER RAGE : Wrestling with D. H. Lawrence
Dyer, Geoff
New York, NY, U.S.A.: NORTH POINT PRESS, 1998 242 PAGES. BRIGHT YELLOW BOARDS, NO SPINE LETTERING. THIS WAS A LIBRARY REFERENCE COPY, ONLY MARKING IS STAMP ON REAR END PAPER AND DISCARD ON FRONT END PAPER. BOOK IS CLEAN, BRIGHT AND SECURE.. First AMERICAN EDITION. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. BIOGRAPHY. ( more information)
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Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling With D.H. Lawrence
Dyer, Geoff
New York, NY: North Point Press, 1998 A nice reading copy. Pages are clean and bright. Binding is cracked at page 117. Book and jacket show some shelfwear. Jacket is clear plastic with design. . First American Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. ( more information)
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Out of Sheer Rage : Wrestling with D. H. Lawrence
Dyer, Geoff
New York, NY, U.S.A.: North Point Press. Near Fine/Near Fine. 1998. First American Edition. Hard Cover. 0-86547-533-4 tight spine and very clean, 242 pages. Keywords: LAWRENCE, D, H, DAVID, HERBERT, 1885, 1930, LITERARY, CRITICISM, EUROPEAN, ENGLISH, IRISH, SCOTTISH, WELSH. ( more information)
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Out of Sheer Rage : Wrestling with D. H. Lawrence
Dyer, Geoff
New York, NY, U.S.A.: North Point Press, 1998. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Slight shelfwear. 242 pages. Not so much a book about Lawrence as a book about writing a book about D.H. Lawrence. ( more information)
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OUT OF SHEER RAGE Wrestling with D. H. Lawrence
Dyer, Geoff
New York, NY: North Point Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0865475334. This is a first edition hardcover with an Acetate dust jacket. It is crisp bright and clean. The endpapers, edges, and pages are free of marks or writing. The book appears to be carefully read, if at all. ; 8vo. ( more information)
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Out of Sheer Rage : Wrestling With D.H. Lawrence
Dyer, Geoff
North Point Pr. Hardcover. 0865475334 Excellent condition, hardcover 1998 FIRST EDITION, clean acetate, dust jacket with light shelf wear dusting, no wear to bright yellow cover, text tight and crisp without marks, readit . New. ( more information)
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