White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World

By Geoff Dyer

Book Overview

In White Sands, Geoff Dyer ("one of the funniest writers alive" -- Chicago Tribune ) finds himself on the road again, crisscrossing the globe from French Polynesia to northernmost Norway. Throughout his adventures--with a tour guide who may not be a tour guide in the Forbidden City in Beijing; with friends in New Mexico, where D. H. Lawrence famously claimed to have had his "greatest experience from the outside world"; with Don Cherry (or a photo of him, at any rate) at the Watts Towers in Los Angeles--Dyer interweaves fiction and nonfiction to craft an often hilarious, always inquisitive travelogue about the questions we ask when we step outside ourselves.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 110197012X
• ISBN13: 9781101970126
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Vintage
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.2" x 8.0"