Another Great Day at Sea: Life Aboard the USS George H. W. Bush - Softcover

Dyer, Geoff

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1782113363 ISBN 13: 9781782113362

Publisher: Canongate Books, 2015

Synopsis

In November 2011, Geoff Dyer fulfilled a childhood dream of spending time on an aircraft carrier. Dyer's stay on the USS George Bush, on active service in the Arabian Gulf, proved even more intense, memorable, and frequently hilarious, than he could ever have hoped.

In Dyer's hands, the warship becomes a microcosm for a stocktaking of modern Western life: religion, drugs, chauvinism, farting, gyms, steaks, prayer, parental death, relationships and how to have a beach party with 5000 people on a giant floating hunk of steel. Piercingly perceptive and gloriously funny, this is a unique book about work, war and entering other worlds.

About this title

Book Description:

From a writer whose books succeed in either subverting or creating genres comes a unique look at an inaccessible world

About the Author:

Geoff Dyer is the author of Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi and three previous novels, as well as nine non-fiction books. Dyer has won the Somerset Maugham Prize, the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction, a Lannan Literary Award, the International Center of Photography's 2006 Infinity Award for writing on photography and the American Academy of Arts and Letters' E.M. Forster Award. In 2009 he was named GQ's Writer of the Year. He won a National Book Critics Circle Award in 2012 and was a finalist in 1998. In 2015 he received a Windham Campbell Prize for non-fiction. His books have been translated into twenty-four languages. He currently lives in Los Angeles where he is Writer in Residence at the University of Southern California.

About this edition

• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1782113363
• ISBN 13: 9781782113362
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208