Otherwise known as the human condition selected essays and reviews, 1989-2010
A volume of nonfiction writings and essays by the National Book Critics Circle finalist draws on twenty-five years of work and includes pieces that reflect on subjects ranging from jazz and the British-dole queue to haute couture and hotel sex.
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Minneapolis, Minn. :
Graywolf Press,
2011.
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Otherwise known as the human condition : |b selected essays and reviews, 1989-2010 / |c Geoff Dyer. |
| 260 | |a Minneapolis, Minn. : |b Graywolf Press, |c 2011. | ||
| 300 | |a xii, 421 p. : |b ill. ; |c 23 cm. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references. | ||
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |g Visuals. |t Jacques Henri Lartigue and the discovery of India -- |t Robert Capa -- |t If I die in a combat zone -- |t Ruth Orkin's V-E Day -- |t Richard Avedon -- |t Enrique Metinides -- |t Joel Sternfeld's utopian visions -- |t Alec Soth : Riverrun -- |t Richard Misrach -- |t William Gedney -- |t Michael Ackerman -- |t Miroslav Tichý -- |t Saving Grace : Todd Hido -- |t Idris Kahn -- |t Edward Burtynsky -- |t Turner and memory -- |t The American sublime -- |t The awakening of stones : Rodin -- |t Ecce homo -- |g Verbals. |t D.H. Lawrence : Sons and lovers -- |t F. Scott Fitzgerald : The beautiful and the damned -- |t F. Scott Fitzgerald : Tender is the night -- |t Pounding print -- |t Richard Ford : Independence day -- |t James Salter : The hunters and Light years -- |t Denis Johnson : Tree of smoke -- |t Ian McEwan : Atonement -- |t Lorrie Moore : A gate at the stairs -- |t Don DeLillo : Point omega -- |t The Goncourt journals -- |t Rebecca West : Black lamb and grey falcon -- |t John Cheever : The journals -- |t Ryszard Japuściński's African life -- |t W.G. Sebald, Bombing, and Thomas Bernhard -- |t Regarding the achievement of others : Susan Sontag -- |t The moral art of war -- |g Musicals. |t "My favorite things" -- |t Ramamani -- |t Def Leppard and the anthropology of supermodernity -- |t Editions of contemporary me -- |t Is jazz dead? -- |t Cherry Street -- |g Variables. |t Blues for Vincent -- |t Loving and admiring : Camus' Algeria -- |t Oradour-sur-Glane -- |t Parting shots -- |t The wrong stuff -- |t Fabulous clothes -- |t The 2004 Olympics -- |t Sex and hotels -- |t What will survive of us -- |g Personals. |t The airfix generation -- |t Comics in a man's life -- |t Violets of pride -- |t On being an only child -- |t Sacked -- |t On the roof -- |t Unpacking my library -- |t Reader's block -- |t My life as a gate-crasher -- |t Something didn't happen -- |t Otherwise known as the human condition (with particular reference to Doughtnut Plant doughnuts) -- |t Of course. |
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