'I have an idea for a self help-book,' I said. 'Yoga For People Who Can't Be Bothered To Do It'.
'But you can't be bothered to write it, right?'
This isn't Geoff Dyer's self-help book. Rather it is a book about how the author himself could do with a little help. In achingly funny and thought-provoking prose, he describes a life most of us would love to live - and how much that life frustrates and aggravates him. From Amsterdam to Cambodia, from Rome to Indonesia, from New Orleans to Libya, from Detroit to Ko Pha-Ngan, Dyer finds himself floundering in a sea of grievances and loses himself in moments of transcendental calm: a wonky quest for peak experiences that leads, ultimately, to the Zone - the Black Rock Desert in Nevada, where he loses himself in the Burning Man experience.
- 'Possibly the best living writer in Britain' DAILY TELEGRAPH
- 'Dyer's prose- dreamy and precise and as perfectly formed as the women his narrator hangs with- seduces the reader through happy, druggy idleness, yearning, restlessness and despair
- hallucinatory and hallucinated cityscapes.' DAILY TELEGRAPH
- 'One of the most skilful writers around. You must read him.' GUARDIAN
- '[An] irresistably readable book.' DAILY MAIL
Ebook (Microsoft)
Published 24/04/2003