Another Great Day at Sea - Geoff Dyer

Another Great Day at Sea

Life Aboard the USS George H. W. Bush

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
208 Seiten
2015 | Main
Canongate Books (Verlag)
978-1-78211-336-2 (ISBN)
13,70 inkl. MwSt
From a writer whose books succeed in either subverting or creating genres comes a unique look at an inaccessible world
In November 2011, Geoff Dyer fulfilled a childhood dream of spending time on an aircraft carrier. Dyer's stay on the USS George Bush, on active service in the Arabian Gulf, proved even more intense, memorable, and frequently hilarious, than he could ever have hoped.

In Dyer's hands, the warship becomes a microcosm for a stocktaking of modern Western life: religion, drugs, chauvinism, farting, gyms, steaks, prayer, parental death, relationships and how to have a beach party with 5000 people on a giant floating hunk of steel. Piercingly perceptive and gloriously funny, this is a unique book about work, war and entering other worlds.

Geoff Dyer is the author of Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi and three previous novels, as well as nine non-fiction books. Dyer has won the Somerset Maugham Prize, the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction, a Lannan Literary Award, the International Center of Photography's 2006 Infinity Award for writing on photography and the American Academy of Arts and Letters' E.M. Forster Award. In 2009 he was named GQ's Writer of the Year. He won a National Book Critics Circle Award in 2012 and was a finalist in 1998. In 2015 he received a Windham Campbell Prize for non-fiction. His books have been translated into twenty-four languages. He currently lives in Los Angeles where he is Writer in Residence at the University of Southern California.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 5.3.2015
Illustrationen Chris Steele-Perkins
Zusatzinfo 8pp colour inset
Verlagsort Edinburgh
Sprache englisch
Maße 130 x 199 mm
Gewicht 20 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Literatur Essays / Feuilleton
Natur / Technik Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe Militärfahrzeuge / -flugzeuge / -schiffe
Natur / Technik Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe Schiffe
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10 1-78211-336-3 / 1782113363
ISBN-13 978-1-78211-336-2 / 9781782113362
Zustand Neuware
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