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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Otherwise known as the human condition
    sub title: selected essays and reviews, 1989-2010
  name:
    name part: Dyer, Geoff.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mnu
    date issued: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 421 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
  abstract: A volume of nonfiction writings and essays by the National Book Critics Circle finalist draws on twenty-five years of work and includes pieces that reflect on subjects ranging from jazz and the British-dole queue to haute couture and hotel sex.
  table of contents: Visuals. Jacques Henri Lartigue and the discovery of India -- Robert Capa -- If I die in a combat zone -- Ruth Orkin's V-E Day -- Richard Avedon -- Enrique Metinides -- Joel Sternfeld's utopian visions -- Alec Soth : Riverrun -- Richard Misrach -- William Gedney -- Michael Ackerman -- Miroslav Tichý -- Saving Grace : Todd Hido -- Idris Kahn -- Edward Burtynsky -- Turner and memory -- The American sublime -- The awakening of stones : Rodin -- Ecce homo -- Verbals. D.H. Lawrence : Sons and lovers -- F. Scott Fitzgerald : The beautiful and the damned -- F. Scott Fitzgerald : Tender is the night -- Pounding print -- Richard Ford : Independence day -- James Salter : The hunters and Light years -- Denis Johnson : Tree of smoke -- Ian McEwan : Atonement -- Lorrie Moore : A gate at the stairs -- Don DeLillo : Point omega -- The Goncourt journals -- Rebecca West : Black lamb and grey falcon -- John Cheever : The journals -- Ryszard Japuściński's African life -- W.G. Sebald, Bombing, and Thomas Bernhard -- Regarding the achievement of others : Susan Sontag -- The moral art of war -- Musicals. "My favorite things" -- Ramamani -- Def Leppard and the anthropology of supermodernity -- Editions of contemporary me -- Is jazz dead? -- Cherry Street -- Variables. Blues for Vincent -- Loving and admiring : Camus' Algeria -- Oradour-sur-Glane -- Parting shots -- The wrong stuff -- Fabulous clothes -- The 2004 Olympics -- Sex and hotels -- What will survive of us -- Personals. The airfix generation -- Comics in a man's life -- Violets of pride -- On being an only child -- Sacked -- On the roof -- Unpacking my library -- Reader's block -- My life as a gate-crasher -- Something didn't happen -- Otherwise known as the human condition (with particular reference to Doughtnut Plant doughnuts) -- Of course.
  note: Geoff Dyer.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    topic: Essays
  classification: PR6054.Y43 O84 2011
  classification: 824.914
  identifier: 9781555975791 (pbk.) :
  identifier: 1555975798 (pbk.)
  identifier: 2010937517
  record info:
    record content source: BTCTA
    record creation date: 100721
    record change date: 20151202121656.0
    record identifier: in00002693277
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng