- Paperback: 278 pages
- Publisher: Abacus; New edition edition (4 Mar 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0349112045
- ISBN-13: 978-0349112046
- Product Dimensions: 12.6 x 2.2 x 20 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 245,365 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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**'A TENDER IS THE NIGHT for the Ecstasy Age' Tim Pears**'A beautifully composed rave generation rhapsody . dripping with eroticism' SUNDAY TIMES **'A beautiful, remarkable book' GUARDIAN *'A skilfully crafted map of the human heart' INDEPENDENT ** 'Compelling . Dyer is a deft storyteller and has written a rattling good tale' SPECTATOR
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'A beautifully composed rave generation rhapsody ... dripping with eroticism'
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
'Paris Trance' traces the lives of two newly formed couples in Paris, thrown together by a volatile, and at times uncertain, bond of friendship, love, lust, sex, and drugs, and their adventures and relationships both inside and around Paris. 'Paris Trance' is skilfully executed throughout, capturing everything from the frustration (both emotional and sexual) of a single man in the heat of a Parisian summer, to the attempts of Dyer's narrator to make sense of the flourishing and later degenerating relationships and personalities around him.
Dyer crafts 'Paris Trance' at his own idiosyncratic (and now his trademark) intersection of genres, not least in his fascination with the ability of prose to convey the visual, as with film and photography, while always remaining sensitive to the emotional climate of the world that he creates. Dyer is also clearly the inheritor of the spirit, if not the style, of earlier twentieth century works of fiction such as Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness', and F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' and 'Tender is the Night', with his concern for the degeneration of social relationships and the perils of admiration which approaches hero worship. It is the skill with which Dyer executes his exploration into the nature of highly restricted social circles, bordering on philosophy and social psychology, which makes 'Paris Trance' a magnificent, and thoroughly engaging, work of late Twentieth Century fiction.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Geoff Dyer has the extraordinary ability to write about real people, doing what people actually do, and saying the kind of things people actually say in real life, all in a prose which is almost frightening in its beauty and intensity. He also manages to write about happiness convincingly, a happiness which is all the sharper and more keenly felt because we know, early on, that things will turn out unhappily for one of the male characters. The book has acknowledged echoes of Fitzgerald and Hemingway, but the picture of Paris it paints is far more realistic than either (I live there) and shows the city, and its inhabitants, pretty much as they are in real life. Either Dyer has an adviser on colloquial Parisian speech, or he's totally fluent - the French really do speak like that. A beautiful, sad, happy novel that everyone should read but very few could write.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a story about two couples in their twenties in Paris enjoying life and having fun. One of the characters, Luke, turns away from life and love for no clear reason and the thrust of the narrative is another character's attempts to understand why he's done this. Since we know it's all going to end in tears, the happy times become all the more poignant. It's very well written and definitely far classier and more thoughtful than your average "we went out clubbing and took loads of drugs" yoof novel.
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"We all want to believe that truth is incompatible with bitterness"
A story of two love affairs in a benevolent la France, and yes - sex, drugs and rock and roll. Given that it's delivered by the sublime Geoff Dyer, what more could one ask? Read more
Published 20 months ago by Eileen Shaw
most amazing narrative
picked this book in the local library after i forgot my halfway read copy of "yoga for people..." on the train, out of sheer desperation for this guy's style. Read more
Published on 22 Dec 2003
Ceaselessly into the Past: F. Scott, Intimacy and Ecstasy
Paris Trance is both a novel and an elegy about romance, destiny, intimacy, and the rise and fall of an intense, short-lived friendship between two couples living an expatriate... Read more
Published on 17 July 2000 by Eric J. Steger
Brilliant, wonderful, gorgeous
An elegant and mesmerising novel - really, adjectives don't do it justice! Geoff Dyer evokes a happiness so intense it can't last - and knowing that it doesn't somehow makes the... Read more
Published on 25 Jun 2000
Buy this book!
Beautiful prose from one of England's best writer
Published on 7 Dec 1999
Emotional, erotic, amusing, insightful...simple but eloquent
Excellent book. So hard to find a good book about friendship, love and loss. This is one of them.
Published on 7 July 1999
An erotic trip of poetic hedonism
When you first start to read this book you feel you are being taken into a world which is totally directed towards the ultimate pinanacle of happiness. Read more
Published on 22 Jun 1999
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