Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi [Paperback]

'Clever, funny, an intellectual with a resolutely bloke-ish stance; irreverent and incorrigibly subversive ... Dyer is more than a cult writer; he's a virus, invading your system. You look at things differently, embracing the idiosyncratic, keeping the obvious at bay ... vintage Dyer, painfully funny, slyly observant, brilliant, full of wild misery.' Spectator

A raucous delight. Jeff in Venice is truly surprising - very funny, full of nerve, gutsy and delicious. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

A haunted - and haunting - book. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Moments of wit, humanity, and intelligence are to be found on every page here. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Risky, breathtakingly candid, intellectual, cool, outrageous, laconic and sometimes shocking --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

A sad, funny, lyrical, furious story of an ordinary man's momentary redemption and decline.
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With his interior monologue and his hilarious gift for self-pity, Jeff is a Jim Dixon for our times. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Dazzling and peculiar...Everything most desperately awful about the [Biennale] is all too vividly evoked in these pages. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Jeff Atman, a journalist, is in Venice to cover the opening of the Biennale. He's expecting to see a load of art, go to a lot of parties and drink too many bellinis. He's not expecting to meet the spellbinding Laura, who will completely transform his few days in the city. So begins a story of erotic love and spiritual learning that will reach its conclusion amidst the ghats of Varanasi.

Geoff Dyer is the author of three previous novels, a critical study of John Berger, and six other non-fiction books, including But Beautiful, which was awarded the Somerset Maugham Prize; Out of Sheer Rage, which was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist; and, most recently, The Ongoing Moment, which won the international Centre of Photography's 2006 Infinity Award for writing on photography. The winner of a Lannan Literary Award and the American Academy of Arts and Letters' E. M. Forster Award, Dyer lives in London.