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Geoff Dyer£25 ($40)
“A total delight.”
“Sending him to sea in a battleship is like putting Lady Gaga down a coal mine”
Book
Another Great Day at Sea by Geoff Dyer is the much-anticipated first title from our exciting new set of books: Writers in Residence. A collectable set that brings together
Another Great Day at Sea chronicles Dyer’s experiences, with humour and everyday tender human stories, on the largest aircraft carrier in the world, the USS George H.W. Bush. Dyer navigates the carrier’s daily routines and protocols: from flight deck choreography through to kitchens serving meals for a crew of five thousand to the deafening complexity of catapult and arresting gear.
Another Great Day at Sea is a dazzling social experiment, complete with arresting, full-colour photography by award-winning Magnum photographer Chris Steele-Perkins, a definitive, boundary collapsing work written by an author whose books otherwise defy definition.
Author
Geoff Dyer’s previous books include But Beautiful (winner of the Somerset Maugham Award); The Missing of the Somme ; Out of Sheer Rage ; The Ongoing Moment (winner of the ICP Infinity Award for writing on photography); Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi ; and Zona (about Andrei Tarkovsky’s film Stalker ). Dyer currently lives in Venice, California.
What They Say
“A total delight.” — The Independent
“No writer has more fun with his own awkwardness, and in this respect you can’t help feeling he has come to exactly the right place.” — The Observer Magazine
“Readers of the book’s UK edition are lucky: it’s more handsome than the US edition – featuring more photographs from Chris Steele-Perkins (dubbed “the snapper”)” — The Financial Times
“Sending him to sea in a battleship is like putting Lady Gaga down a coal mine” — The Evening Standard
“So another victory for the U.S. Navy: against the odds, they have taken on the might of Geoff Dyer, and won.” — The Daily Mail
Photographer
Chris Steele-Perkins is an award-winning Magnum photographer, best known for his depictions of Africa, Afghanistan, England and Japan whose work has been featured in exhibitions and publications around the world.
Designer
Jeremy Leslie runs magCulture, dividing his time between designing, writing and curating. Recent projects include design direction of progressive online publishing project Aeon , creative direction for Luxembourg publisher Maison Moderne and the curatorship of QVED2014 . He is a passionate advocate for editorial design, regularly contributing to the creative press and international design conferences on the subject.
Writers in Residence Books
Another Great Day at Sea: Life Aboard the USS George H.W. Bush Number 01 — Spring 2014
Money and Tough Love: On Tour with the IMF Number 02 — Summer 2014
Kitten Clone: Inside Alcatel-Lucent Number 03 — Autumn 2014
Details
Published 27th May 2014
