'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.

Reviews

For OUT OF SHEER RAGE:

• If there was a prize for the year’s funniest book then OUT OF SHEER RAGE would win hands down’ INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
• ‘An intriguing, magnetic, genre-rattling book’ SUNDAY TIMES For BUT BEAUTIFUL: 'BUT BEAUTIFUL is just that. A moving and highly original tribute to Black American music’ Bryan Ferry
• ‘Gloriously original’ OBSERVER

Hardback

Published 24/04/2003