White Sands

Experiences from the Outside World

By: Geoff Dyer

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Paperback | 30 May 2017

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256 Pages

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20.32 x 13.34 x 1.91

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From "one of our most original writers" (Kathryn Schulz, New York magazine) comes an expansive and exacting book-firmly grounded but elegant, often hilarious, and always inquisitive-about travel, unexpected awareness, and the questions we ask when we step outside ourselves.

Geoff Dyer's restless search-for what? is unclear, even to him-continues in this series of fascinating adventures and pilgrimages: with a tour guide who may not be a tour guide in the Forbidden City in Beijing; with friends in New Mexico, where D. H. Lawrence famously claimed to have had his "greatest experience from the outside world"; with a hitchhiker picked up on the way from White Sands; with Don Cherry (or a photo of him, at any rate) at the Watts Towers in Los Angeles.

Weaving stories about places to which he has recently traveled with images and memories that have persisted since childhood, Dyer tries "to work out what a certain place-a certain way of marking the landscape-means; what it's trying to tell us; what we go to it for."

With 4 pages of full-color illustrations.

From the Hardcover edition.

Industry Reviews

"Surpassingly eloquent. . . . There's no other writer quite like [Dyer]." --Time

"Perhaps the most brilliantly original practitioner of his generation... I here and now acknowledge the work of Geoff Dyer, once and for all, to be forgivable cause for any writer's jealousy." --Jan Morris, The Spectator

"Entertaining and thought provoking." --The Times Literary Supplement "Reading Dyer is like taking a trip around the world with your best-read, wittiest, most interesting friend." --O, The Oprah Magazine "A rumination on the meanings we assign the strange destinations of our pilgrimages. . . . [Dyer is] a neurotic Siddhartha, forever going on hopeful pilgrimages that wind up leaving him disappointed and hollow, the brunt of a much larger cosmic joke." --The New York Times

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