This volume collects Geoff Dyer's freelance work between 1984 and 1998. There are sustained meditations on photographers (from canonical figures like Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa to the barely known master William Gedney), on painters (Bonnard, Gauguin), musicians (Coltrane, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan) and close critical engagements with writers (Camus, Graham Greene, Cormac McCarthy, Michael Ondaatje and Martin Amis). Also here are idiosyncratic reflections on boxing, on collecting, on Airfix models and Action Man, and often hilarious accounts of his "misadventures": flying in a Mig-29 in Moscow, on the razz with Def Leppard in Seoul, on safari in Africa, and in trouble learning to freefall parachute.
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**Witty, insightful and wonderfully eclectic, ANGLO-ENGLISH ATTITUDES is the perfect introduction to the work of 'the least predictable SOMETHING SOMETHING' Jason Cowley, THE TIMES**'Books by Geoff Dyer ... get under your skin. Where most writers barely nick the flesh of human feeling, Dyer somehow manages to dig deeper' GUARDIAN **'The Poet-Laurate of the Slacker Generation' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
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Geoff Dyer is the author of three novels, a critical study of John Berger, WAYS OF TELLING, and three genre-defying titles: BUT BEAUTIFUL, THE MISSING OF THE SOMME and OUT OF SHEER RAGE.
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Geoff Dyer is the author of four novels and six other nonfiction books, including But Beautiful, which was awarded the Somerset Maugham Prize, and Out of Sheer Rage, which was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. The winner of a Lannan Literary Award, the International Centre of Photography's 2006 Infinity Award for writing on photography, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters' E. M. Forster Award, Dyer is a regular contributor to many publications in the US and UK. He lives in London. For more information visit Geoff Dyer's official website: www.geoffdyer.com
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