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Out of Sheer Rage

In the Shadow of D. H. Lawrence

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Out of Sheer Rage

By: Geoff Dyer
Narrated by: Tom Hollander
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Sitting down to write a book about his hero D. H. Lawrence, Geoff Dyer finds himself compelled to write about anything else. He is in fact compelled to do more or less anything else instead of write.

In Sicily he is too preoccupied by his hatred of seafood to follow the great writer's footsteps; in Mexico he cannot get beyond a drug-induced erotic fantasy on a nudist beach...and yet, incredibly, this attempt to write a 'sober academic study' reveals the hold Lawrence and his work still exert on us today.

Out of Sheer Rage is a complete one-off, a richly comic study of the combination of bad temper, procrastination and the uncanny power of obliquity.

©2018 Geoff Dyer (P)2018 Canongate Books Ltd Authors Rage

Critic Reviews

"An intriguing, magnetic, genre-rattling book." (The Times)

"Marvellous...a glorious truant from study...gives a better picture of [Lawrence] than any biography I know." (James Wood, Guardian)
"The kind of book that gives literary criticism a bad name. Hilarious!" (John Berger)

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Perverse

The narration fits the book perfectly.
The book is about perversity-contradictions, negations, not being able to decide between two alternatives, never getting there.
Life has no meaning except doing

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