Sitting down to write a book about his hero D.
H.
Out of Sheer Rage is a complete one-off, a richly comic study of the combination of bad temper, procrastination and the uncanny power of obliquity..
And yet, incredibly, this attempt to write a 'sober academic study' reveals the hold Lawrence and his work still exert on us today. . .
In Sicily he is too preoccupied by his hatred of seafood to follow the great writer's footsteps; in Mexico he cannot get beyond a drug-induced erotic fantasy on a nudist beach .
He is in fact compelled to do more or less anything else instead of write.
Lawrence, Geoff Dyer finds himself compelled to write about anything else.
Sitting down to write a book about his hero D.
H