The bad side of books : selected essays
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Dyer, Geoff, editor,
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New York : New York Review Books, [2019].
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xviii, 490 pages ; 21 cm.
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South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
824.912 LAWREN 2019
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New York : New York Review Books, [2019].
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You could describe D.H. Lawrence as the great multi-instrumentalist among the great writers of the twentieth century. He was a brilliant, endlessly controversial novelist who transformed, for better and for worse, the way we write about sex and emotions; he was a wonderful poet; he was an essayist of burning curiosity, expansive lyricism, odd humor, and radical intelligence, equaled, perhaps, only by Virginia Woolf. Here Geoff Dyer, one of the finest essayists of our day, draws on the whole range of Lawrences published essays to reintroduce him to a new generation of readers for whom the essay has become an important genre. We get Lawrence the book reviewer, writing about Death in Venice and welcoming Ernest Hemingway; Lawrence the travel writer, in Mexico and New Mexico and Italy; Lawrence the memoirist, depicting his strange sometime-friend Maurice Magnus; Lawrence the restless inquirer into the possibilities of the novel, writing about the novel and morality and addressing the question of why the novel matters; and, finally, the Lawrence who meditates on birdsong or the death of a porcupine in the Rocky Mountains. Dyers selection of Lawrences essays is a wonderful introduction to a fundamental, dazzling writer.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Lawrence, D. H. 1., & Dyer, G. (2019). The bad side of books: selected essays . New York Review Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Lawrence, D. H. 1885-1930 and Geoff, Dyer. 2019. The Bad Side of Books: Selected Essays. New York Review Books.

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Lawrence, D. H. 1885-1930 and Geoff, Dyer. The Bad Side of Books: Selected Essays New York Review Books, 2019.

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Lawrence, D. H. 1885-1930,, and Geoff Dyer. The Bad Side of Books: Selected Essays New York Review Books, 2019.

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