Selected Essays of John Berger
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- Paperback
608 pages
- Release Date
11 March 2003
Summary
The writing career of Booker Prize winner John Berger–poet, storyteller, playwright, and essayist–has yielded some of the most original and compelling examinations of art and life of the past half century. In this essential volume, Geoff Dyer has brought together a rich selection of many of Berger’s seminal essays.
Berger’s insights make it impossible to look at a painting, watch a film, or even visit a zoo in quite the same way again. The vast range of subjects he addresses, the lean…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780375713187 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0375713182 |
| Author: | John Berger |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Vintage Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 608 |
| Release Date: | 11 March 2003 |
| Weight: | 431g |
| Dimensions: | 201mm x 130mm x 26mm |
| Series: | Vintage International |
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Critics Review
“An important, not-to-be-missed chance to luxuriate in Berger’s incomparable sagacity and visual sense.” —The Washington Post
“[Berger’s grace] is in his way with words, and the infinite meanings he finds in that common but extraordinary thing, noticing.” —The New York Times Book Review
“Tenderness, and an unflagging interest in the experience of being human, infuse his work.” —Los Angeles Times
“Berger is one of the greatest living writers in the English language.” —Buffalo News
About The Author
John Berger
John Berger was born in London in 1926. He is well known for his novels and stories as well as for his works of nonfiction, including several volumes of art criticism. His first novel, A Painter of Our Time, was published in 1958, and since then his books have included Ways of Seeing, the fiction trilogy Into Their Labours, and the novel G., which won the Booker Prize in 1972. In 1962 he left Britain permanently, and lived in a small village in the French Alps. He died in 2017.
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