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Anglo-English Attitudes by Geoff Dyer
$22.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
"Anglo-English Attitudes" brings together Geoff Dyer's best journalism and other writing from 1984-99. There are studied meditations on photographers (Robert Capa, William Gedney, Cartier-Bresson), painters (Bonnard, Gauguin), musicians (Coltrane, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan), and close critical engagements w ...Show more
Another Great Day at Sea by Geoff Dyer
$29.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Reading Level: good
As a child Geoff Dyer spent long hours making and blotchily painting model fighter planes. So the adult Dyer jumped at the chance of a residency aboard an aircraft carrier. Another Great Day at Sea chronicles Dyer's experiences on the USS George H.W. Bush as he navigates the routines and protocols of 'c ...Show more
Another Great Day at Sea Life Aboard the USS George H. W. Bush by Geoff Dyer
$45.00 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Another Day at Sea is the first title in the Writers in Residence series — a collectible set of books that brings together some of the greatest writers and photographers on the planet to reveal the normally faceless organizations that shape the modern world. The arresting, full-color photography, depict ...Show more
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon - A Journey Through Yugoslavia by Rebecca West; Geoff Dyer (Introduction by)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: Canons Ser.
A travel literature classic. Introduced by Geoff Dyer: 'As a book about Yugoslavia it's a kind of metaphysical Lonely Planet that never requires updating'
'Broadsword Calling Danny Boy': On Where Eagles Dare by Geoff Dyer
$19.99 AUD
Category: Film & TV
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 by Geoff Dyer
$27.99 AUD
Category: Music
In a series of fictional portraits, Geoff Dyer captures the beating heart of jazz, its pathos and lyricism, urgency and self-destruction: Charlie Mingus in New York; Art Pepper in prison; Lester Young in the Alvin; Bud Powell in Paris.
But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz by Geoff Dyer
$24.99 AUD
Category: Music
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
But Beautiful - A Book about Jazz by Geoff Dyer
$30.00 AUD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
"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 ...Show more
Contest Of The Century: The New Era of Competition with China by Geoff Dyer [No relation]
$22.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Description: 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 als ...Show more
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi by Geoff Dyer
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Ah Venice! The canals, palazzos, gondoliers, vaporetti...the bellinis. Jeff Atman, hack writer, is in town for the Biennale. Ostensibly to fulfil a freelance commission, actually to attend as many parties and soak up as much free booze as logistically possible. Then he meets Laura. Suddenly, amid the co ...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
Otherwise Known as the Human Condition: Selected Essays and Reviews, 1989-2010 by Geoff Dyer
$22.95 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
*Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism**A "New York Times""Book Review" Editors' Choice**A "New York Times" Top 10 Nonfiction Book of the Year, as selected by Dwight Garner* Geoff Dyer has earned the devotion of passionate fans on both sides of the Atlantic through his wildly inv ...Show more