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'.

' A screamingly funny genre-defying feat ... sublime.' Maggie O'Farrell, Daily Telegraph

About the Author
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.

Reviews
Among the most original and talented writers of his generation. * * Independent on Sunday * *
Refreshingly outlandish ... remarkable. * * Evening Standard * *
He flits from one exotic location to another . . . meditating with frightening intelligence and laser-guided wit on the human comedy. At times i was reduced to helpless laughter, at others to impotent envy. * * Mail on Sunday * *



Book Information
ISBN 9780857864062
Author Geoff Dyer
Format Paperback
Page Count 256
Imprint Canongate Books
Publisher Canongate Books
Weight(grams) 174g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 16mm