Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It - Softcover

Geoff Dyer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0857864068 ISBN 13: 9780857864062

Publisher: Canongate Books, 2012

Synopsis

From Amsterdam to Cambodia, from Rome to Indonesia, from New Orleans to Libya, and from Detroit to Ko Pha-Ngan, Geoff Dyer finds himself both floundering about in a sea of grievances and finding moments of transcendental calm. This aberrant quest for peak experiences leads, ultimately, to the Black Rock Desert in Nevada, where, to quote Tarkovsky's Stalker, 'your most cherished desire will come true'.

About this title

Book Description:

' A screamingly funny genre-defying feat . . . sublime.' Maggie O'Farrell, Daily Telegraph

From the Inside Flap:

This isn't a self-help book; it's a book about how Geoff Dyer could do with a little help. In mordantly funny and thought-provoking prose, the author of Out of Sheer Rage describes a life most of us would love to live--and how that life frustrates and aggravates him.
As he travels from Amsterdam to Cambodia, Rome to Indonesia, Libya to Burning Man in the Black Rock Desert, Dyer flounders about in a sea of grievances, with fleeting moments of transcendental calm his only reward for living in a perpetual state of motion. But even as he recounts his side-splitting misadventures in each of these locales, Dyer is always able to sneak up and surprise you with insight into much more serious matters. Brilliantly riffing off our expectations of external and internal journeys, Dyer welcomes the reader as a companion, a fellow perambulator in search of something and nothing at the same time.

About this edition

• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0857864068
• ISBN 13: 9780857864062
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 242