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"A memoir by the English author Geoff Dyer, focusing on his childhood years"-- Provided by publisher.

"When artists and athletes age, what happens to their work? Does it ripen or rot? Achieve a new serenity or succumb to an escalating torment? As our bodies decay, how do we keep on? In this beguiling meditation, Geoff Dyer sets his own encounter with late middle age against the l...

Geoff Dyer's hilarious tribute to a film he has loved since childhood, A thrilling Alpine adventure starring a magnificent, bleary-eyed Richard Burton and a dynamically lethargic Clint Eastwood, the apex of 1960s war movies, by turns enjoyable and preposterous.

A collection of travel essays describes a series of unrelated trips and the people the author encountered, including the Forbidden City in Beijing, the Lightning Field in New Mexico, and Watts Towers in Los Angeles.

After a failed assassination attempt, a soldier finds himself stranded in the desert. Exposed to the elements, he must survive the dangers of the desert and battle the psychological and physical toll of the treacherous conditions.

A documentary about an important American still photographer who captured New York City in the 1960s (his work there is said to have influenced the TV show Mad Men) and later the West in Texas and Los Angeles.

In the style of the phenomenally successful 1001 Series this is a bold, bright and incisive guide to the paintings and artists that have had real impact. This wide-ranging selection by a superb international team of writers and critics contains classics as well as contemporary pi...

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.