Buy this book on-line Dyer, Geoff : Otherwise Known As The Human Condition: Selected Essays And ReviewsGraywolf Press, Minneapolis, MN, 2011 ISBN 1555975798
First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 425 pages. Retrospective collection of essays. Now considered a contemporary classic. The first appearance of the essays in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a softcover original only by a small fine press. There is NO Hardcover Edition. The First Edition is now scarce. The essays appeared previously in separate volumes in the United Kingdom, all of which are now scarce as First Editions. Presents Geoff Dyer's "Otherwise Known As The Human Condition: Selected Essays And Reviews". A 425-page compendium-volume of Geoff Dyer's finest and most representative essays. Written over a crucial twenty-year period (1989-2010), they appear in book form in the United States for the very first time. Dyer's large following as a novelist should be enhanced by these elegant and uber-intelligent essays, which are as riveting as his well-known novels. Criticism is also a creative act, not just an intellectual one, for the simple reason that it engages every aspect of one's being (mind, body, feeling, senses, soul). Western culture's fixation with storytelling (the novel in particular) has consigned even the greatest critics to second-tier status as writers and literary artists (third-tier if one considers poetry to be the highest achievement). Geoff Dyer has almost single-handedly kept the art of the essay alive and well in our Age of Academe, which has inflicted what may be the final death-blow to the form. An absolute "must-have" title for Geoff Dyer collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Geoff Dyer. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First American Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: There is NO Hardcover Edition. The book was issued as a softcover original only by a small fine press. Copies available online have serious flaws ("Near Fine", Very Good"). This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. Winner of the National Book Critics Cricle Award in 2012 for "Otherwise Known As The Human Condition". One of the most brilliant writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER GEOFF DYER TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1555975798. Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Dyer, Geoff : Otherwise Known As The Human Condition: Selected Essays And Reviews. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including antiquarian books, rare books, fine bindings, used books and libri antichi. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |