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Geoff Dyer
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born
June 05, 1958
in Cheltenham, The United Kingdom
gender
male
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influences
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Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi
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2009
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18 editions
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Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It
3.47 avg rating — 722 ratings
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2003
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7 editions
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Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling With D.H. Lawrence
4.00 avg rating — 472 ratings
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1997
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6 editions
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But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz
4.30 avg rating — 319 ratings
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published
1991
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9 editions
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The Ongoing Moment
 3.84 avg rating — 305 ratings
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Paris Trance
3.51 avg rating — 287 ratings
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published
1998
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Otherwise Known as the Human Condition: Selected Essays and Reviews
3.86 avg rating — 148 ratings
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published
2011
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Zona: A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room
3.71 avg rating — 120 ratings
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2012
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The Missing of the Somme
3.97 avg rating — 95 ratings
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Working the Room: Essays and Reviews: 1999-2010
3.81 avg rating — 36 ratings
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2010
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February 2012,
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"His Favorite Books About Obsessions: Lose yourself in these literary labors of love, recommended by the meditative writer who reveals his mania for cinema in Zona." ...More
"His Favorite Books About Obsessions: Lose yourself in these literary labors of love, recommended by the meditative writer who reveals his mania for cinema in Zona." ...More
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“Life is bearable even when it's unbearable: that is what's so terrible, that is the unbearable thing about it.”
― Geoff Dyer, Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling With D.H. Lawrence
― Geoff Dyer, Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling With D.H. Lawrence
“He [Thelonious Monk] played each note as though astonished by the previous one, as though every touch of his fingers on the keyboard was correcting an error and this touch in turn became an error to be corrected and so the tune never quite ended up the way it was meant to.”
― Geoff Dyer, But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz
― Geoff Dyer, But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz
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