White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World
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| Rating | : | 4.30 (692 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1101870850 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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Jon Hunt said Unique destinations. The places that author Geoff Dyer has visited won't be found in most travel guides, so his wonderful new book is a good way to see some unusual places about which he comments in an absorbing fashion. From China to Tahiti to Norway, Dyer shares his visits with an eye to detail and a pen (often) to deserved criticism. It's hard to pick a favorite chapter but his time spent i. Nashville Nancy said Very enjoyable!. Maybe because we have the same attitude toward travel results in my enjoying this book so much. I am constantly disappointed by any destination, but Mr. Dyer assures us that it just means that we still have high expectations of life and are forever hopeful (or something to that effect). The chapter on the deep winter visit to Norway in hopes of seeing the Northern Lights c. An uneven book filled with fits and starts D. Chia I'm just not sure what Dyer is going for here. Yes it is a collection of works from a myriad of travels but it never develops tonally or thematically. He oscillates from a snarky, cynical voice to fanatically impassioned and detailed. I had a hard time getting invested in any of his stories. Should I feel sorry for his miserable experience in the north? Can I really substi
In this new collection of pieces, he does it again: he writes so entertainingly about not seeing the Northern Lights that you’re glad he was deprived of the experience…. Literature may not want for hitchhiking stories, but you can never have too many. This book never takes itself too seriously, yet manages to comment impressively on art’s place in society.” —San Francisco Chronicle, Book Seller Recommendations“Its seemingly straightforward travel narratives—with stops in Tahiti, the Arctic Circle, New Mexico, and China, among others—are obliquely fictionalized and rife with the author’s hopscotch intellect. In White Sands such surrender is often reserved not for sites of historical importance, but for sites of quixotic artistic endeavour: Sabato Rodia’s Watts Towers in Los Angeles, Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty in Utah, or especially
Geoff Dyer’s restless search—for what? is unclear, even to him—continues in this series of fascinating adventures and pilgrimages: with a tour guide who may not be a tour guide in the Forbidden City in Beijing; with friends in New Mexico, where D. Weaving stories about places to which he has recently traveled with images and memories that have persisted since childhood, Dyer tries “to work out what a certain place—a certain way of marking the landscape—means; what it’s trying to tell us; what we go to it for.”With 4 pages of full-color illustrations.. From “one of our most original writers” (Kathryn Schulz, New York magazine) comes an expansive and exacting book—firmly grounded but elegant, often hilarious, and always inquisitive—about travel, unexpected awareness, and the questions we ask when we step outside ourselves. Lawrence famously claimed to have had his “greatest experience from the outside world”; with a hitchhiker picked up on the way from White Sands; with Don Cherry (or a photo of him, at any rate) at the Watts Towers in Los Angeles. H
The author of four novels and nine works of non-fiction, Dyer is writer in residence at the University of Southern California and lives in Los Angeles. Forster Award, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism, and, in 2015, the Windham Campbell Prize for non-fiction. M. His books have been translated into twe