Out of Sheer Rage: In the Shadow of D. H. Lawrence
When he became interested in literature at grammar school, it was D.H. Lawrence who fired Geoff Dyer's imagination, and it was the figure of Lawrence, the miner's son who spent his life travelling, living by his pen, which made it seem possible to him to become a writer. The work is as much a...
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When he became interested in literature at grammar school, it was D.H. Lawrence who fired Geoff Dyer's imagination, and it was the figure of Lawrence, the miner's son who spent his life travelling, living by his pen, which made it seem possible to him to become a writer. The work is as much a travel book as a biography, as Geoff Dyer retraces Lawrence's journeys and, using Lawrence's own writings, life, and crucially, photographs as clues, learns much about matters close to his own heart as he does about Lawrence himself.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780349108582 (0349108587)
Publish date: August 1st 1998
Publisher: Abacus Software
Pages no: 242
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Travel,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Writing,
Essays,
Literature,
Cultural,
Italy,
Criticism,
Literary Criticism,
Books About Books
http://msarki.tumblr.com/post/52310823330/wrestling-with-rageThe most captivating segment of the book was when Dyer acknowledged the brilliance, wit, and anger discovered in his reading of the letters of D. H. Lawrence. Offering these bright and shining examples helped in my growing interest of Lawr...
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