Another Great Day at Sea
Author(s): Geoff Dyer
As a child Geoff Dyer spent long hours making and blotchily painting model fighter planes. So the adult Dyer jumped at the chance of a residency aboard an aircraft carrier. Another Great Day at Sea chronicles Dyer's experiences on the USS George H.W. Bush as he navigates the routines and protocols of 'carrier-world', from the elaborate choreography of the flight deck through miles of walkways and hatches to kitchens serving meals for a crew of five thousand to the deafening complexity of catapult and arresting gear. Meeting the Captain, the F-18 pilots and the dentists, experiencing everything from a man-overboard alert to the Steel Beach Party, Dyer guides us through the most AIE (acronym intensive environment) imaginable. A lanky Englishman (could he really be both the tallest and the oldest person on the ship?) in a deeply American world, with its constant exhortations to improve, to do better, Dyer brilliantly records the daily life on board the ship, revealing it to be a prism for understanding a society where discipline and conformity, dedication and optimism, become forms of self-expression. In the process it becomes clear why Geoff Dyer has been widely praised as one of the most original-and funniest-voices in literature. Another Great Day at Sea is the definitive work of an author whose books defy definition.
Product Information
Geoff Dyer is the author of four previous novels, a critical study of John Berger and six other non-fiction 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. Dyer currently lives in Los Angeles and contributes to numerous publications including the Observer, Guardian and New Statesman.
General Fields
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- : The Text Publishing Company
- : Text Publishing
- : 0.298
- : 01 March 2015
- : 234mm X 153mm
- : 01 April 2015
- : books
Special Fields
- : Geoff Dyer
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 359.94350973
- : good
- : photographs