num_pages: 256
description: Geoff Dyer had always wanted to write a book about D. H. Lawrence. He wanted, in fact, to write his "Lawrence book." The problem was, he had no idea what his "Lawrence book" would be, though he was determined to write a "sober academic study." Luckily for the reader, he failed miserably.Out of Sheer Rage is a harrowing, comic, and grand act of literary deferral. At times a furious repudiation of the act of writing itself, this is not so much a book about Lawrence as a book about writing a book about Lawrence. As Lawrence wrote about his own study of Thomas Hardy, "It will be about anything but Thomas Hardy, I am afraid-queer stuff-but not bad."
language: English
title: Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling With D.H. Lawrence
titlecomplete: Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling With D.H. Lawrence
genres: Essays, Biography, Literary Criticism, Travel, Literature, Nonfiction, Writing, Memoir, Books About Books, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 2154
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Criticism
publisher: North Point Press