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Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi
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Jeff Atman, a journalist, is in Venice to cover the opening of the Biennale. He's expecting to see a load of art, go to a lot of parties and drink too many bellinis. He's not expecting to meet the spellbinding Laura, who will completely transform his few days in the city. Another city, another assignment: this time on the banks of the Ganges in Varanasi. Amid the crowds, ghats and chaos of India's holiest Hindu city, a different kind of transformation lies in wait. A beautifully told story of erotic love and spiritual yearning, Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi is playful, stylish, sensual, comic, ingenious and utterly captivating. It confirms Geoff Dyer as one of Britain's most exciting writers.

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The English writer Geoff Dyer delights in producing books that are unique, like keys.
James Wood, New Yorker

The last 20 pages approach magnificence: a virtuosic melding of style and repertoire that come together as a sort of yogic "one."
Ted Weesner Jr., Boston Globe

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Published: 02 Apr 2009
Paperback
304 pages
Price:  £12.99
ISBN: 9781847672704

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Geoff Dyer

Geoff Dyer is the author of three previous novels, a critical study of John Berger, and six other nonfiction books, including But Beautiful, which was awarded the Somerset Maugham Prize, and Out of Sheer Rage, which was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. The winner of a Lannan Literary Award, the International Centre of Photography's 2006 Infinity Award for writing on photography, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters' E. M. Forster Award, Dyer is a regular contributor to publications including the Guardian and the New Statesman. He lives in London.

Photo by Jason Oddy.

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