Out of Sheer Rage: In the Shadow of D.H.Lawrence [Paperback]

'The kind of book that gives literary criticism a bad name. Hilarious!' John Berger **'An intriguing, magnetic, genre-rattling book' THE TIMES **'If there was a prize for the year's funniest book then it would win hands down' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY **'A masterpiece.' MAIL ON SUNDAY **'Marvellous.a glorious truant from study ...gives a better picture of (Lawrence) than any biography I know' James Wood, GUARDIAN

'An intriguing, magnetic, genrerattling book'

'If there was a prize for the year's funniest book then it would win hands down'

'A masterpiece.'

'Brilliant.'

When he became interested in literature at grammar school, it was D.H. Lawrence who fired Geoff Dyer's imagination, and it was the figure of Lawrence, the miner's son who spent his life travelling, living by his pen, which made it seem possible to him to become a writer. The work is as much a travel book as a biography, as Geoff Dyer retraces Lawrence's journeys and, using Lawrence's own writings, life, and crucially, photographs as clues, learns much about matters close to his own heart as he does about Lawrence himself.

Geoff Dyer was born in 1958. His book BUT BEAUTIFUL, about jazz, won the Somerset Maugham Prize & was shortlisted for the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize. His essays & reviews appear in the INDEPENDENT, NEW STATESMAN & other periodicals. He writes regularly for the GUARDIAN & is a contributing editor of ESQUIRE.