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- Book Title
- Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi
- Publication Name
- Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi
- Title
- Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0307390306
- EAN
- 9780307390301
- ISBN
- 9780307390301
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Genre
- Fiction
- Release Year
- 2010
- Release Date
- 06/04/2010
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Item Length
- 8in
- Item Width
- 5.2in
- Item Weight
- 10.2 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2010
- Topic
- Psychological, Visionary & Metaphysical, Literary, Romance / General
- Number of Pages
- 304 Pages
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A New York Times Notable Book A Best Book of the Year: The Economist, The New Yorker, San Francisco Chronicle, Slate.com, and Time In Venice, at the Biennale, a jaded, bellini-swigging journalist named Jeff Atman meets a beautiful woman and they embark on a passionate affair. In Varanasi, an unnamed journalist (who may or may not be Jeff) joins thousands of pilgrims on the banks of the holy Ganges. He intends to stay for a few days but ends up remaining for months. Their journey--as only the irrepressibly entertaining Geoff Dyer could conjure--makes for an uproarious, fiendishly inventive novel of Italy and India, longing and lust, and the prospect of neurotic enlightenment.
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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0307390306
ISBN-13
9780307390301
eBay Product ID (ePID)
74839128
Product Key Features
Book Title
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Psychological, Visionary & Metaphysical, Literary, Romance / General
Publication Year
2010
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
5.2in
Item Weight
10.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pr6054.Y43j44 2010
Reviews
"Profoundly haunting and fearless. . . . Dyer at his best." -Pico Iyer,The New York Times Book Review "An original, affecting, and unexpected book. . . . [Full of] wonderful observations, pungent and funny." -James Wood,The New Yorker "Madly compelling. . . . A virtuosic melding of style and repertoire that come together as a sort of yogic 'one.'" -The Boston Globe "Intoxicating. . . . A roller-coaster ride through the peaks and depths of sensual and spiritual abandonment-as-fulfillment." -National Geographic Traveler "Dyer is very funny. . . a post-modern Kingsley Amis." -Zadie Smith, author ofWhite Teeth "A comic sexual-spiritual odyssey. . . . Dyer's prose is muscular, sometimes lighthearted and ribald." -St. Louis Post-Dispatch "Astonishingly original. . . . An unforgettable book." -The Oregonian "Geoff Dyer is one of my favorite of all contemporary writers. . . .Jeff in Venice[is] a sad, funny, lyrical, furious story of an ordinary man's momentary redemption and decline." -Alain de Botton, author ofHow Proust Can Change Your Life "Deft and daring. . . . A perceptive, engaging travelogue." -ThePhiladelphia Inquirer "Detailed and engaging. . . . Quite the mind game. . . . In Dyer's enigmatic novel, every reader will have to discover his or her own answers." -San Francisco Chronicle "Brilliant. . . . Dyer doesn't reference Thomas Mann'sDeath in Venicefor nothing:Jeff in Venicepicks up Mann's themes of yearning for beauty and lost youth, but also Mann's deadly seriousness of artistic purpose. . . . [Dyer's] art is one of languid, suspended watching, lulling the reader into a morbid [Henry] Jamesian arousal." -New York Observer "A raucous delight.Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasiis truly surprising-very funny, full of nerve, gutsy and delicious. Venice will never be the same again!" -Michael Ondaatje, author ofThe English Patient "Dyer looks to the West and the East in [this] imaginative examination of self and romance." -New York Post "Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasiis serious fiction; learned travelogue; funny, arch and sad; a cynic's ascent into redemptive love and a stoner's descent into 'Gone-Native' madness. It drips with Geoff Dyer's derelict luminosity." -David Mitchell, author ofCloud Atlas "Musical and wildly intelligent. . . . [Dyer] has outdone himself, offering two narratives that play off one another to create an entirely new set of possibilities-a third story-in the reader's mind. . . . It grips you in unexpected ways." -Time Out New York "A coy curmudgeon, a sly cosmopole, Casanova on a lark, Turner on a binge, a swami whami and arm-twister-Geoff Dyer is the Mann!" -Lawrence Weschler, author ofMr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder "Beautifully crafted. . . . A career-best performance." -The Sunday Telegraph(London) "Smart, provocative, often very funny, but ultimately deeply sobering,Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasiis a contender for the most original, and the cleverest, novel of the year." -The Daily Telegraph(London), "Dyer's writerly versatility braids into something madly compelling as the narration becomes comically and tragically unreliable." -The Boston Globe "Geoff Dyer's astonishingly original two-part novel "Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi" contrasts cynical worldliness in the first part --the art world at the Venice Biennale and its themes of sex, drugs and social status --with unworldliness in the second part, the passage to nonbeing that is Varanasi, the city of burning funeral pyres alongside the Ganges." -Portland Oregonian "Funny, insightful, and accessible, [Jeff in Venice…] allows the reader to move easily between the two cities and connect with the two characters, or two halves of the same person. Dyer…[is] an innovative, genre-bending writer." -Booklist "[Jeff in Venice]is a dirty satire on a decadent scene, but it's also wise, wistful, funny, and achingly sad." -Very Short List "Jeff, a middle-aged, grumpy, and alienated British freelance writer, is sent to cover an art event in Venice. There he meets a beautiful American woman with whom he begins a scorching affair fueled by alcohol, cocaine, and the festive lifestyle of the exhibition. At the end of the party, the two exchange emails and promises to get in touch. In the second part of the novel, Jeff travels to the mystical Indian city of Varanasi on another assignment, where he immerses himself in the city, the religion, the holy men, and drug use. He falls for a young woman living a nomadic life, but once again this romance slips away. A mere description of the story line only scratches the surface of this funny and mysterious work. Dyer's (The Ongoing Moment) witticisms and wordplay, woven into the ongoing commentary of the history, geography, and psychology of Venice and then Varanasi, are brilliant. What emerges is a theme of conflict of Western vs. Eastern modes of behavior and perception. Thought-provoking and entertaining, if not to everyone's taste, this is recommended for all larger collections." -Library Journal "Geoff Dyer is a True Original - one of those rare voices in contemporary literature that never ceases to surprise, disturb and delight. A must read for our confused and perplexing times." -William Boyd, author ofNat Tate - An American Artist 1928-1960 "Dyer is very funny, in both senses - sort of like a post-modern Kingsley Amis. His writing is acute and bad tempered in the great British tradition, and his prose is the equal of anyone in the country. A national treasure." -Zadie Smith, author ofWhite Teeth "Two 40-ish men seeking love and existential meaning are the protagonists of these highly imaginative twin novellas, written in sensuous, lyrical prose brimming with colorful detail. In the first, Jeff Atman is a burnt-out, self-loathing London hack journalist who travels to scorching, Bellini-soaked Venice to cover the 2003 Biennale, and there finds the woman of his dreams and an incandescent love affair. The unnamed narrator of the second novella (who may be the same Jeff) is an undistinguished London journalist on assignment in the scorching Indian holy city of Varanasi, where the burning ghats, the filth and squalid poverty and the sheer crush of bodies move him to abandon worldly ambition and desire. Dyer's ingenious linking of these contrasting narratives is indicative of his intelligence and stylistic grace, and his ability to evoke atmosphere with impressive clarity is magical. Both novellas ask trenchant philosophical questions, include moments of irresistible humor and offer arresting observations about art and human nature. For all his, "Dyer's writerly versatility braids into something madly compelling as the narration becomes comically and tragically unreliable." -The Boston Globe "Geoff Dyer's astonishingly original two-part novel "Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi" contrasts cynical worldliness in the first part --the art world at the Venice Biennale and its themes of sex, drugs and social status --with unworldliness in the second part, the passage to nonbeing that is Varanasi, the city of burning funeral pyres alongside the Ganges." -Portland Oregonian "No contemporary writer blends genres better than Geoff Dyer, and his latest novel-a vigorous mash-up of satire, romance, travelogue and existential treatise-is his best yet…Dyer excels at savage comedy-see his tableau of jaded art critics desperately swilling Bellinis-but he's even better on the profound pleasures and indignities of the flesh, which are the forces that unite his novel's two very separate worlds." Time Magazine, "The Top 10 Everything of 2009" "Funny, insightful, and accessible, [Jeff in Venice…] allows the reader to move easily between the two cities and connect with the two characters, or two halves of the same person. Dyer…[is] an innovative, genre-bending writer." -Booklist "[Jeff in Venice]is a dirty satire on a decadent scene, but it's also wise, wistful, funny, and achingly sad." -Very Short List "Jeff, a middle-aged, grumpy, and alienated British freelance writer, is sent to cover an art event in Venice. There he meets a beautiful American woman with whom he begins a scorching affair fueled by alcohol, cocaine, and the festive lifestyle of the exhibition. At the end of the party, the two exchange emails and promises to get in touch. In the second part of the novel, Jeff travels to the mystical Indian city of Varanasi on another assignment, where he immerses himself in the city, the religion, the holy men, and drug use. He falls for a young woman living a nomadic life, but once again this romance slips away. A mere description of the story line only scratches the surface of this funny and mysterious work. Dyer's (The Ongoing Moment) witticisms and wordplay, woven into the ongoing commentary of the history, geography, and psychology of Venice and then Varanasi, are brilliant. What emerges is a theme of conflict of Western vs. Eastern modes of behavior and perception. Thought-provoking and entertaining, if not to everyone' s taste, this is recommended for all larger collections." -Library Journal "Geoff Dyer is a True Original - one of those rare voices in contemporary literature that never ceases to surprise, disturb and delight. A must read for our confused and perplexing times." -William Boyd, author ofNat Tate - An American Artist 1928-1960 "Dyer is very funny, in both senses - sort of like a post-modern Kingsley Amis. His writing is acute and bad tempered in the great British tradition, and his prose is the equal of anyone in the country. A national treasure." -Zadie Smith, author ofWhite Teeth "Two 40-ish men seeking love and existential meaning are the protagonists of these highly imaginative twin novellas, written in sensuous, lyrical prose brimming with colorful detail. In the first, Jeff Atman is a burnt-out, self-loathing London hack journalist who travels to scorching, Bellini-soaked Venice to cover the 2003 Biennale, and there finds the woman of his dreams and an incandescent love affair. The unnamed narrator of the second novella (who may be the same Jeff) is an undistinguished London journalist on assignment in the scorching Indian holy city of Varanasi, where the burning ghats, the filth and squalid poverty and the shee
Copyright Date
2010
Target Audience
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Lccn
2010-292319
Dewey Decimal
823/.914
Dewey Edition
22
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