The Missing of the Somme

Name: The Missing of the Somme
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Rating: 2 (1 reviews)
Author: Geoff Dyer
ISBN: 9781609985349

Author: Geoff Dyer

Narrator: Antony Ferguson

Unabridged: 4 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing

Published: 09/01/2011

Categories: Nonfiction, History, Wars, World War I, Art

Synopsis

Geoff Dyer has won fans writing about everything from jazz to D. H. Lawrence, from photography to neurotic enlightenment, from Cambodia to Rome. The Missing of the Somme, his remarkable book on the significance of the First World War, is a gem for Dyer fans and history buffs alike. With his characteristic wit and insight, here Dyer weaves a network of myth and memory, photos and film, poetry and sculptures, graveyards, and ceremonies that illuminate our understanding of, and relationship to, the Great War. From one of our most beloved authors, this is a personal meditation on war and remembrance.

About Geoff Dyer

Geoff Dyer is the award-winning author of many books, including the essay collection Otherwise Known as the Human Condition, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,. He is writer-in-residence at the University of Southern California.

About Antony Ferguson

Antony Ferguson, Earphones Award–winning narrator, was born in London. He has performed successfully on both sides of the Atlantic and has played many leading roles in theater, film, and television.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Roger on July 02, 2016

What passing bells? If I should die, think only this of me, That there's some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England, England's own. — Rupert Brooke (1887–1915) What passing bells for these who die as cattle? — Wilfred Owen (1893–1918)Why is it that the Great War exerts such power over the E......more

Goodreads review by Aquavit on June 11, 2011

Perhaps that is what is meant by ‘lonelyness’ — knowing that even at your moments of most exalted emotion, you do not matter (perhaps this is precisely the moment of most exalted emotion) because these things will always be here: the dark trees full of summer leaf, the fading light that has not chan......more