Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It

2012-05-10
Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It

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  • Author: Geoff Dyer
  • Publisher: Canongate Books
  • ISBN: 0857863428
  • Category : Travel
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 226

From Amsterdam to Cambodia, from Rome to Indonesia, from New Orleans to Libya, and from Detroit to Ko Pha-Ngan, Geoff Dyer finds himself both floundering about in a sea of grievances and finding moments of transcendental calm. This aberrant quest for peak experiences leads, ultimately, to the Black Rock Desert in Nevada, where, to quote Tarkovsky's Stalker, 'your most cherished desire will come true'.

Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It

2007-12-18
Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It

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  • Author: Geoff Dyer
  • Publisher: Vintage
  • ISBN: 0307430340
  • Category : Travel
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 186

Mordantly funny, thought-provoking travel essays, from the acclaimed author of Out of Sheer Rage and “one of our most original writers” (New York Magazine). This isn’t a self-help book; it’s a book about how Geoff Dyer could do with a little help. In these genre-defying tales, he travels from Amsterdam to Cambodia, Rome to Indonesia, Libya to Burning Man in the Black Rock Desert, floundering in a sea of grievances, with fleeting moments of transcendental calm his only reward for living in a perpetual state of motion. But even as he recounts his side-splitting misadventures in each of these locales, Dyer is always able to sneak up and surprise you with insight into much more serious matters. Brilliantly riffing off our expectations of external and internal journeys, Dyer welcomes the reader as a companion, a fellow perambulator in search of something and nothing at the same time.

Out of Sheer Rage

2014-06-24
Out of Sheer Rage

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  • Author: Geoff Dyer
  • Publisher: North Point Press
  • ISBN: 1466869860
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 256

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD "In the spirit of Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot and Alain de Botton's How Proust Can Change Your Life, Mr. Dyer's Out of Sheer Rage keeps circling its subject in widening loops and then darting at it when you least expect it . . . a wild book."--Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times Geoff Dyer was a talented young writer, full of energy and reverence for the craft, and determined to write a study of D. H. Lawrence. But he was also thinking about a novel, and about leaving Paris, and maybe moving in with his girlfriend in Rome, or perhaps traveling around for a while. Out of Sheer Rage is Dyer's account of his struggle to write the Lawrence book--a portrait of a man tormented, exhilarated, and exhausted. Dyer travels all over the world, grappling not only with his fascinating subject but with all the glorious distractions and needling anxieties that define the life of a writer.

Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi

2009-04-07
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi

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  • Author: Geoff Dyer
  • Publisher: Vintage
  • ISBN: 030737808X
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 336

A New York Times Notable Book A Best Book of the Year: The Economist, The New Yorker, San Francisco Chronicle, Slate.com, and Time In Venice, at the Biennale, a jaded, bellini-swigging journalist named Jeff Atman meets a beautiful woman and they embark on a passionate affair. In Varanasi, an unnamed journalist (who may or may not be Jeff) joins thousands of pilgrims on the banks of the holy Ganges. He intends to stay for a few days but ends up remaining for months. Their journey—as only the irrepressibly entertaining Geoff Dyer could conjure—makes for an uproarious, fiendishly inventive novel of Italy and India, longing and lust, and the prospect of neurotic enlightenment.

Working the Room

2010-11-01
Working the Room

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  • Author: Geoff Dyer
  • Publisher: Canongate Books
  • ISBN: 1847679668
  • Category : Literary Collections
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 312

Alive with insight, wit and Dyer's characteristic irreverence, this collection of essays offers a guide around the cultural maze, mapping a route through the worlds of literature, art, photography and music. Besides exploring what it is that makes great art great, Working the Room ventures into more personal territory with extensive autobiographical pieces - 'On Being an Only Child', 'Sacked' and 'Reader's Block', among other gems. Dyer's breadth of vision and generosity of spirit combine to form a manual for ways of being in - and seeing - the world today.

Zona

2012-02-02
Zona

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  • Author: Geoff Dyer
  • Publisher: Canongate Books
  • ISBN: 0857861689
  • Category : Performing Arts
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 185

In this spellbinding book, the man described by the Daily Telegraph as 'possibly the best living writer in Britain' takes on his biggest challenge yet: unlocking the film that has obsessed him all his adult life. Like the film Stalker itself, it confronts the most mysterious and enduring questions of life and how to live.

The Ongoing Moment

2005
The Ongoing Moment

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  • Author: Geoff Dyer
  • Publisher: Pantheon
  • ISBN: 0375422153
  • Category : Photography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 312

In his most ambitious work to date, the acclaimed author of "Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It" offers an irresistibly idiosyncratic look at what viewers see when they look at photographs. in color.

White Sands

2016-05-03
White Sands

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  • Author: Geoff Dyer
  • Publisher: Vintage
  • ISBN: 1101870869
  • Category : Travel
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 184

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. 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. H. 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. 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.

Book of Yoga Self Practice

2020-08-20
Book of Yoga Self Practice

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  • Author: Rebecca Anderton-Davies
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9781529349467
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 320

Too busy? Too stressed? Can't focus? But would you love to discover the power of regular practice? This book is for you. The Book of Yoga Self-Practice is the ultimate guide for every aspiring yogi or dedicated student who wants to find the magic of an independent yoga self-practice - one that's simple, practical, captivating and attainable. No need to travel to a class, or struggle to find the exact type of teaching you need in any given moment. No need to follow a video or come up with the pre-planned sequence. No need to keep spending money on classes or subscriptions that never quite fit the bill. This step-by-step guide will show you how to overcome the challenges of starting, continuing and progressing in a yoga self-practice. It combines heartfelt writing with beautiful, clear design to provide 20 usable and unbelievably helpful tools that you can implement in your yoga practice today. Learn to practice anywhere at anytime, not just do poses. Fast, slow, short, long - your flow starts here. Start reaping the incredible rewards for your body and mind.

The Missing of the Somme

2011-08-09
The Missing of the Somme

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  • Author: Geoff Dyer
  • Publisher: Vintage
  • ISBN: 0307742970
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 178

The Missing of the Somme is part travelogue, part meditation on remembrance—and completely, unabashedly, unlike any other book about the First World War. Through visits to battlefields and memorials, Geoff Dyer examines the way that photographs and film, poetry and prose determined—sometimes in advance of the events described—the way we would think about and remember the war. With his characteristic originality and insight, Dyer untangles and reconstructs the network of myth and memory that illuminates our understanding of, and relationship to, the Great War.