Another Great Day at Sea: Life Aboard the USS George H.W. Bush
Author(s): Geoff Dyer, (Jo
As a child Geoff Dyer spent long hours making and blotchily painting model fighter planes. So as an adult, naturally he jumped at the chance to spend a week onboard the aircraft carrier the USSGeorge H.W. Bush.Part deft travelogue, part unerring social observation, and part finely honed comedy, Another Great Day at Sea is the inimitable Dyer s account of his time spent wandering the ship s maze of walkways, hatches, and stairs, and talking with the crew from the Captain to the ship s dentists. A lanky Englishman in a deeply American world, Dyer brilliantly records daily life aboard this floating fortress, revealing it to be a prism for understanding a society where discipline and conformity become forms of self-expression. At the same time we are reminded why Dyer is celebrated as one of the most original voices in contemporary literature."
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Geoff Dyer s books includeBut 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;andZona.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 collectionOtherwise 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. Dyer currently lives in Venice, California."
General Fields
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- : Vintage
- : Vintage
- : 0.181
- : 07 April 2015
- : 203mm X 132mm X 15mm
- : United States
- : books
Special Fields
- : illustrations
- : 359.94350973
- : Paperback / softback
- : Geoff Dyer, (Jo