Out of Sheer Rage

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Quite possibly the best living writer in Britain * * Daily Telegraph * * An intriguing, magnetic, genre-rattling book * * The Times * * The kind of book that gives literary criticism a bad name. Hilarious! -- John Berger If there was a prize for the year's funniest book then it would win hands down * * Independent on Sunday * * A masterpiece * * Mail on Sunday * * Marvellous . . . a glorious truant from study . . . gives a better picture of (Lawrence) than any biography I know. -- James Wood * * Guardian * * A national treasure -- Zadie Smith One of my favourite of all contemporary writers. I love his sense of the absurd, his pessimism mixed with robust good cheer, his beautifully crafted sentences, his jokes and his intelligence. -- Alain de Botton Geoff Dyer is a true original - one of those rare voices in contemporary literature that never ceases to surprise, disturb and delight. Risky, breathtakingly candid, intellectual, cool, outrageous, laconic and sometimes shocking, Geoff Dyer is a must-read for our confused and perplexing times. -- William Boyd [Out of Sheer Rage] gets the full Canongate Canons treatment from its new Edinburgh publishers this month; happy, happy news if ever there was any, O.O.S.R is vintage Dyer, and well worthy of this upgrade to 'modern classic' status. * * Dazed and Confused * *