Geoff Dyer is the author of Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi and three previous novels, as well as nine non-fiction books. Dyer has won the Somerset Maugham Prize, the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction, a Lannan Literary Award, the International Center of Photography's 2006 Infinity Award for writing on photography and the American Academy of Arts and Letters' E.M. Forster Award. In 2009 he was named GQ's Writer of the Year. He won a National Book Critics Circle Award in 2012 and was a finalist in 1998. In 2015 he received a Windham Campbell Prize for non-fiction. His books have been translated into twenty-four languages. He currently lives in Los Angeles where he is Writer in Residence at the University of Southern California.
Brilliant . . . Dyer's eyes miss nothing
* * Observer * *
An examination of some of the most fundamental questions of life .
. . Inspiring and informing
* * Guardian * *
Even Chekhov might have envied Geoff Dyer's talent . . . Almost
perfect
* * Spectator * *
[A] disregard for genre boundaries is a hallmark of his work, along
with erudition, a brilliant use of language and irreverent humour .
. . The nearest thing to White Sands in Dyer's back catalogue is
Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It
* * Daily Telegraph * *
Surpassingly eloquent . . . there's no other writer quite like
Dyer
* * Time * *
Illuminating . . . A collection unified by a focus on our
impermanence. Why are we here? Dyer asks. With his customary
elegance of thought, he sees that our attempts to transcend our
situation through travel and art are motivated by our awareness of
our final destination: "We are here to go somewhere else".
* * Financial Times * *
A national treasure
*ZADIE SMITH*
Dyer's virtue is not the whole-hearted embrace of experience and
exotic locales but the parsing of degrees of disappointment. He
also doesn't pretend to be heading anywhere, but then White Sands
turns into a memoir and becomes unexpectedly moving . . . Dyer's
tone as he relates his frightening brush with tragedy is calm and
full of curiosity, possibly as a result of eschewing drama for his
entire life.
* * Los Angeles Times * *
White Sands isn't just a catalog of travel mishaps, with Mr. Dyer
cast as an English-speaking Monsieur Hulot. It is also a rumination
on the meanings we assign the strange destinations of our
pilgrimages.
* * New York Times * *
Reading Dyer is akin to the sudden elation and optimism you feel
when you make a new friend, someone as silly as you but cleverer
too, in whose company you know you will travel through life more
vagrantly, intensely, joyfully
* * Daily Telegraph * *
Geoff Dyer is a true original - one of those rare voices in
contemporary literature that never ceases to surprise, disturb and
delight
*William Boyd*
Quite possibly the best living writer in Britain
* * Daily Telegraph * *
A collection of essays fusing travel writing and fiction . . . Dyer
plays fast and loose with genre and category
* * Telegraph * *
The title essay, about picking up an ex-con hitchhiker on US Route
54 before passing a warning sign against doing exactly that, reads
like a brilliant short story. It's electrifying - unlike the
Northern Lights
* * Tatler Magazine * *
Cleverer, more self-deprecating and funnier in these essays, set
all over the world and in his unique mind. Dyer's last travel book,
Yoga for People Who Can't be Bothered to Do It, sold over 50,000
copies in the UK alone, and this is just as good: a travel title
that asks not just where, but why, with Dyer's typical sardonic
wit
* * The Bookseller * *
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