Full name: Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D. H. Lawrence

Author: Geoff Dyer Year: 1997 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Memoirs, Non Fiction, Travel, Essays Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780865475403 9780312429461 0865475407 0312429460

Geoff Dyer had always wanted to write a book about D. H. Lawrence. He wanted, in fact, to write his "Lawrence book." The problem was, he had no idea what his "Lawrence book" would be, though he was determined to write a "sober academic study." Luckily for the reader, he failed miserably.Out of Sheer Rage is a harrowing, comic, and grand act of literary deferral. At times a furious repudiation of the act of writing itself, this is not so much a book about Lawrence as a book about writing a book about Lawrence. As Lawrence wrote about his own study of Thomas Hardy, "It will be about anything but Thomas Hardy, I am afraid-queer stuff-but not bad." Similar books: Otherwise Known as the Human Condition by Geoff Dyer My Life in Middlemarch by Rebecca Mead The Magnolia Story by Chip Gaines Dancing Barefoot by Wil Wheaton The Pursuit of Happyness by Chris Gardner Ron Jeremy by Ron Jeremy Nerd Do Well by Simon Pegg Little Girl Lost by Drew Barrymore Sir Vidia's Shadow by Paul Theroux Kiss Me Like A Stranger by Gene Wilder On the Edge by Richard Hammond Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself by David Lipsky The Bill from My Father by Bernard Cooper Island home by Tim Winton Through the Children's Gate by Adam Gopnik The Wild Truth by Carine McCandless Always Looking Up by Michael J. Fox A Pirate Looks at Fifty by Jimmy Buffett Wildflower by Drew Barrymore Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik