{"product_id":"otherwise-known-as-the-human-condition-selected-essays-and-reviews-9781555975791","title":"Otherwise Known as the Human Condition: Selected Essays and Reviews","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e*Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism*\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e*A \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eBook Review\u003c\/i\u003e Editors' Choice*\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e*A \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Top 10 Nonfiction Book of the Year, as selected by Dwight Garner*\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeoff Dyer has earned the devotion of passionate fans on both sides of the Atlantic through his wildly inventive, romantic novels as well as several brilliant, uncategorizable works of nonfiction. All the while he has been writing some of the wittiest, most incisive criticism we have on an astonishing array of subjects--music, literature, photography, and travel journalism--that, in Dyer's expert hands, becomes a kind of irresistible self-reportage. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOtherwise Known as the Human Condition \u003c\/i\u003ecollects twenty-five years of essays, reviews, and misadventures. Here he is pursuing the shadow of Camus in Algeria and remembering life on the dole in Brixton in the 1980s; reflecting on Richard Avedon and Ruth Orkin, on the status of jazz and the wonderous Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, on the sculptor ZadKine and the saxophonist David Murray (in the same essay), on his heroes Rebecca West and Ryszard Kapus cin ski, on haute couture and sex in hotels. Whatever he writes about, his responses never fail to surprise. For Dyer there is no division between the reflective work of the critic and the novelist's commitment to lived experience: they are mutually illuminating ways to sharpen our perceptions. His is the rare body of work that manages to both frame our world and enlarge it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Graywolf Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/29\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781555975791\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 421\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.47lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.40w x 1.23d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e National Book Critics Circle Award - Winner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/15\/2011 pg. 15\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/17\/2011 pg. 17\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/24\/2011 pg. 22\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/13\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/28\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/23\/2012 pg. 12\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/24\/2012 pg. 40\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Geoff Dyer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43059838550197,"sku":"9781555975791","price":19.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_097c950c-93d7-46f6-8850-99d6dc3edb64.jpg?v=1690299275","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/otherwise-known-as-the-human-condition-selected-essays-and-reviews-9781555975791","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}