The Bad Side of Books: Selected Essays of D.H. Lawrence (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781681373638)

You could describe D.H. Lawrence as the great multi-instrumentalist among the great writers of the twentieth century. He was a brilliant, endlessly controversial novelist who transformed, for better and for worse, the way we write about sex and emotions; he was a wonderful poet; he was an essayist of burning curiosity, expansive lyricism, odd humor, and radical intelligence, equaled, perhaps, only by Virginia Woolf. Here Geoff Dyer, one of the finest essayists of our day, draws on the whole range of Lawrence's published essays to reintroduce him to a new generation of readers for whom the essay has become an important genre. We get Lawrence the book reviewer, writing about Death in Venice and welcoming Ernest Hemingway; Lawrence the travel writer, in Mexico and New Mexico and Italy; Lawrence the memoirist, depicting his strange sometime-friend Maurice Magnus; Lawrence the restless inquirer into the possibilities of the novel, writing about the novel and morality and addressing the question of why the novel matters; and, finally, the Lawrence who meditates on birdsong or the death of a porcupine in the Rocky Mountains. Dyer's selection of Lawrence's essays is a wonderful introduction to a fundamental, dazzling writer.

Author: D. H. Lawrence
ISBN-10: 1681373637
ISBN-13: 9781681373638
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Language: English
Published: 11/12/2019
Pages: 512
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.00w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 08/26/2019
Kirkus Reviews 09/15/2019