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The Missing of the Somme Paperback – 30 Jun. 2016

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  3. Publisher
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    30 Jun. 2016
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    12.9 x 1.5 x 19.81 cm
  6. ISBN-10
    1782119264
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1782119265
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"The great Great War book of our time" (Observer)

"A penetrating meditation upon war and remembrance" (Daily Telegraph)

"Dyer is excellent on the different ambitions and effects of municipal memorials, and on photographs and paintings" (Sebastian Faulks Mail on Sunday) --Observer

"A gentle, patient, loving book. It is about mourning and memory, about how the Great War has been represented - and our sense of it shaped and defined - by different artistic media" (Guardian) --Guardian

"Articulates a response to the Great War which many feel, but no one has analysed so scrupulously" (Spectator) --Spectator

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Republished to mark the centenary of the battle of the Somme Geoff Dyer's classic book is 'the great Great War book of our time' (Observer)

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Canongate Books; Main edition (30 Jun. 2016)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1782119264
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1782119265
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.9 x 1.5 x 19.81 cm
  • Customer reviews:
    4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 98 ratings

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Geoff Dyer

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Geoff Dyer is the author of four novels and six other nonfiction books, including But Beautiful, which was awarded the Somerset Maugham Prize, and Out of Sheer Rage, which was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. The winner of a Lannan Literary Award, the International Centre of Photography's 2006 Infinity Award for writing on photography, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters' E. M. Forster Award, Dyer is a regular contributor to many publications in the US and UK. He lives in London. For more information visit Geoff Dyer's official website: www.geoffdyer.com

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