Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi -- Geoff Dyer, Paperback

A New York Times Notable Book

A Best Book of the Year: The Economist, The New Yorker, San Francisco Chronicle, Slate.com, and Time

In Venice, at the Biennale, a jaded, bellini-swigging journalist named Jeff Atman meets a beautiful woman and they embark on a passionate affair.

In Varanasi, an unnamed journalist (who may or may not be Jeff) joins thousands of pilgrims on the banks of the holy Ganges. He intends to stay for a few days but ends up remaining for months.

Their journey--as only the irrepressibly entertaining Geoff Dyer could conjure--makes for an uproarious, fiendishly inventive novel of Italy and India, longing and lust, and the prospect of neurotic enlightenment.

Author: Geoff Dyer
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 04/06/2010
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.46w x 0.89d
ISBN: 9780307390301

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 04/11/2010 pg. 24

About the Author
Geoff Dyer is the author of three novels, a critical study of John Berger, and five genre-defying books, including But Beautiful, which was awarded the Somerset Maugham Prize, and Out of Sheer Rage, which was a National Book Critics Circle finalist. He lives in London.