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Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi
by Dyer, Geoff
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good to Very Good Plus
- Seller
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Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Edinburgh: Canongate Books, 2009. ----- 012469 - The scan you see is the book you get. Large soft cover (roughly) 9 1/4" by 6" (inches) flat spine, tight clean square and true, 296 pages, Very Good to Very Good Plus condition with spine crease & front top right bump. Check out the scans. . Reprint. Soft Cover. Very Good to Very Good Plus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Synopsis
A wildly original novel of erotic fulfillment and spiritual yearning. Every two years the international art world descends on Venice for the opening of the Biennale. Among them is Jeff Atman--a jaded and dissolute journalist--whose dedication to the cause of Bellini-fuelled partygoing is only intermittently disturbed by the obligation to file a story. When he meets the spellbinding Laura, he is rejuvenated, ecstatic. Their romance blossoms quickly, but is it destined to disappear just as rapidly? Every day thousands of pilgrims head to the banks of the Ganges at Varanasi, the holiest Hindu city in India. Among their number is a narrator who may or may not be the Atman previously seen in Venice. Intending to visit only for a few days he ends up staying for months, and suddenly finds--or should that be loses?--a hitherto unexamined idea of himself, the self. In a romance he can only observe, he sees a reflection of the kind of pleasures that, willingly or not, he has renounced. In the process, two ancient and watery cities become versions of each other. Could two stories, in two different cities, actually be one and the same story? Nothing Geoff Dyer has written before is as wonderfully unbridled, as dead-on in evocation of place, longing and the possibility of neurotic enlightenment, and as irrepressibly entertaining as Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi.From the Hardcover edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Nessa Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012469
- Title
- Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi
- Author
- Dyer, Geoff
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good to Very Good Plus
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 2009
- Size
- 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Dyer, Geoff Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi Canongate Books
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Humor;
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Glossary
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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