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Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi
Published 4 January 2011
ISBN 9781921656897
Format Paperback
Extent 304pp
AU Price $23.95
NZ Price $30.00

Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi

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4 Jan 2011
EBook
16 May 2010
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Jeff Atman, a journalist, is in Venice to cover the opening of the Biennale. He's expecting to see a load of art, go to a lot of parties and drink too many bellinis. He's not expecting to meet the spell-binding Laura, who will completely transform his few days in the city.
Another city, another assignment: this time on the banks of the Ganges in Varanasi. Amid the crowds, ghats and chaos of India's holiest Hindu city, a different kind of transformation lies in wait.
A beautifully told story of erotic love and spiritual yearning, Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi is playful, stylish, sensual, comic, ingenious and utterly captivating. It confirms Geoff Dyer as one of the most exciting authors writing in English today.
Published 4 January 2011
ISBN 9781921656897
Format Paperback
Extent 304pp
AU Price $23.95
NZ Price $30.00

About the author

Geoff Dyer

Geoff Dyer's books include But Beautiful (winner of the Somerset Maugham Award); The Missing of the Somme; Out of Sheer Rage; The Ongoing Moment (winner of the ICP Infinity Award for writing on photography); Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi; Zona; and Another Great Day at Sea: Life Aboard the USS George H.W. Bush. His many awards include the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, and, most recently, a National Book Critics Circle Award for the essay collection Otherwise Known as the Human Condition. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and his books have been translated into twenty-four languages.
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Praise for Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi

'There are few writers at work today whose humour and intelligence radiate so clearly from their texts.' Australian

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'One of my favourite books of the year was Geoff Dyer's Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi. It's as enjoyable as it is formally inventive, and everything about it – the art, the drugs, the sex, the bananas, and finally the oblique and moving spiritual renunciation – was compelling and ingenious. It's a rare book that takes its comedy as seriously as its philosophy – or vice versa – but in Dyer's best novel yet, he has done just that.' Guardian

PRH, PRH

'In the weeks since I devoured 'Jeff in Venice,' I don't think a day has passed without my thinking back to it.' New York Times

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