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'Broadsword Calling Danny Boy': On Where Eagles Dare by Geoff Dyer
$19.99 AUD
Category: Cinema
Where Eagles Dareis both a thrillingly realized Alpine Second World War adventure with tough, compelling acting from its two great stars, Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood, and a flippant travesty, infantilizing the central disaster in Europe's modern history in favour of huge explosions and camp SS off ...Show more
But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz by Geoff Dyer
$19.99 AUD
Category: Music Books
Lester Young fading away in a hotel room; Charles Mingus storming down the streets of New York on a too-small bicycle; Thelonius Monk creating his own private language on the piano... In eight poetically charged vignettes, Geoff Dyer skilfully evokes the embattled lives of the players who shaped modern ...Show more
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi by Geoff Dyer
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Jeff Atman, a journalist, is in Venice to cover the opening of the Biennale. He's expecting to see a load of art, go to a lot of parties and drink too many bellinis. He's not expecting to meet the spell-binding Laura, who will completely transform his few days in the city. Another city, another assignme ...Show more
Out of Sheer Rage - In the Shadow of D. H. Lawrence by Geoff Dyer
$22.99 AUD
Category: Cultural Studies
Sitting down to write a book about his hero D. H. Lawrence, Geoff Dyer finds himself compelled to write about anything else. He is in fact compelled to do more or less anything else instead of write. In Sicily he is too preoccupied by his hatred of seafood to follow the great writer's footsteps; in Mexi ...Show more
See/Saw: Looking at Photographs by Geoff Dyer
$49.99 AUD
Category: Photography
A full-colour illuminated history of how photographs frame and change the world, from the award-winning author of The Ongoing Moment.
The Missing of the Somme by Geoff Dyer
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
The Missing of the Somme has become a classic meditation upon war and remembrance. It weaves a network of myth and memory, photos and films, poetry and sculptures, graveyards and ceremonies that illuminate our understanding of, and relationship to, the Great War.
The Ongoing Moment: A Book About Photographs by Geoff Dyer
$24.99 AUD
Category: Photography
Great photographs change the way we see the world; The Ongoing Moment changes the way we look at both. With characteristic perversity ? and trademark originality - The Ongoing Moment is Dyer's unique and idiosyncratic history of photography. Seeking to identify their signature styles Dyer looks at the w ...Show more
Understanding a Photograph by John Berger And Geoff Dyer
$24.99 AUD
Category: Photography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
John Berger's writings on photography are some of the most original of the twentieth century. This selection contains many groundbreaking essays and previously uncollected pieces written for exhibitions and catalogues in which Berger probes the work of photographers such as Henri Cartier-Bresson and W. ...Show more
White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World by Geoff Dyer
$32.99 AUD
Category: Cultural Studies | Reading Level: very good
From one of Britain's most original writers, White Sands is a creative exploration of why we travel. Episodic, wide-ranging, funny and smart, the linked journeys recall the themes of Dyer's Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It - - albeit with the wisdom of (middle) age. From a trip to the Ligh ...Show more
Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It by Geoff Dyer
$19.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
From Amsterdam to Cambodia, from Rome to Indonesia, from New Orleans to Libya and from Detroit to Ko Pha-Ngan, Geoff Dyer finds himself both floundering about in a sea of grievances and finding moments of transcendental calm. This aberrant quest for peak experiences leads, ultimately, to the Black Rock ...Show more
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