Anglo-English Attitudes
Description Anglo-English Attitudes brings together Geoff Dyer's best journalism and other writing from Also here are idiosyncratic reflections on boxing, comics, Airfix models and Action Man, and often hilarious accounts of his 'misadventures'.
The Best Books of Check out the top books of the year on our page Best Books of Looking for beautiful books? Visit our Beautiful Books page and find lovely books for kids, photography lovers and more. Review quote Dyer's books are among the most fresh and eclectic in contemporary letters Because he has fought to preserve his own voice and style, never allowing them to become flattened into cliche; because he writes about his enthusiasms, Dyer's has long been a name to look out for amid the gossip, prurient interviews and celebrity trash of modern newspapers.
That he exists at all, in such ruthlessly materialistic times - unattached to any newspaper, always on the move - is a celebration in itself. In he was named GQ's Writer of the Year. This book is not yet featured on Listopia.
Anglo-English Attitudes
Aug 24, Gavin Leech rated it liked it. What we call "research" is just incidental to Dyer - glittering coincidences and correlations fall into his lap as he sets about reading, apparently, everything. Dang I loved this.
Dyer's writing is way better than DFW's--it is constantly surprising without being mannered. And he makes more interesting observations about England vs.
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America than I'll be able to remember though note that drinking "a pint of lager" p. I want to just write down some of my favorite passages.
- The Beer Drinkers Guide to God: The Whole and Holy Truth About Lager, Loving, and Living;
- See a Problem?.
- Making the Most of Life.
- Toughest Olympians From Around the World Top 100.
- Anglo-English Attitudes.
Writing about Robert Capa's photos of the Normandy invasion: The second thing about these pictures is that they Dang I loved this. The second thing about these pictures is that they show war as we like to see it, war as it ideally looks: American uniforms, helmet straps hanging loose from an early age that single detail suggested a casualness, a freedom from restraint that is, so to speak, identifiably American ; fighting in trashed sleepy villages.
- The Spy Who Came (and Came and Came and Came).
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The implicitly gorgeous woman in the centre is kitted out in what, to our eyes, is a wonderful outfit of s retro chic. French Women don't just get dressed up to go to the boulangerie, the picture suggests, they are even immaculately turned out for a spot of street-fighting.
Angloenglish Attitudes Essays Reviews Misadventure 198499 by Geoff Dyer
What we see here, in other words, is house-to-house fighting of a specifically Parisian kind: Looking at Constable's cloud studies in the Tate I find myself thinking how much better they would look with a Spitfire swooping down through the cumulus. Sep 12, Jeffrey rated it it was amazing. So amazing - such a range here - art, photography, literature, jazz - sensational!
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