Another Great Day at Sea: Life Aboard the USS George H.W. Bush

Dyer, Geoff

ISBN 10: 0307911586 / ISBN 13: 9780307911582

Published by U.S.A.: Pantheon, 2014

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NF/NF. First edition, first printing. Signed by author on title page. 190 pp.

Seller Inventory # 11534

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Another Great Day at Sea: Life Aboard the USS George H.W. Bush
• Publisher: U.S.A.: Pantheon
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0307911586
• ISBN 13: 9780307911582
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • List No. 1 - American Literature

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Synopsis

From a writer “whose genre-jumping refusal to be pinned down [makes him] an exemplar of our era” (NPR), a new book that confirms his power to astound readers.
 
As a child Geoff Dyer spent long hours making and blotchily painting model fighter planes. So the adult Dyer jumped at the chance of a residency aboard an aircraft carrier. Another Great Day at Sea chronicles Dyer’s experiences on the USS George H.W. Bush as he navigates the routines and protocols of “carrier-world,” from the elaborate choreography of the flight deck through miles of walkways and hatches to kitchens serving meals for a crew of five thousand to the deafening complexity of catapult and arresting gear. Meeting the Captain, the F-18 pilots and the dentists, experiencing everything from a man-overboard alert to the Steel Beach Party, Dyer guides us through the most AIE (acronym intensive environment) imaginable.
 
A lanky Englishman (could he really be both the tallest and the oldest person on the ship?) in a deeply American world, with its constant exhortations to improve, to do better, Dyer brilliantly records the daily life on board the ship, revealing it to be a prism for understanding a society where discipline and conformity, dedication and optimism, become forms of self-expression. In the process it becomes clear why Geoff Dyer has been widely praised as one of the most original—and funniest—voices in literature.
 
Another Great Day at Sea is the definitive work of an author whose books defy definition.

About the Author

GEOFF DYER’s books include But Beautiful (winner of the Somerset Maugham Award);The Missing of the Somme; Out of Sheer Rage; The Ongoing Moment (winner of the ICP Infinity Award for writing on photography);Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi; and Zona. His many awards include the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, and, most recently, a National Book Critics Circle Award for the essay collectionOtherwise Known as the Human Condition. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and his books have been translated into twenty-four languages. Dyer currently lives in Venice, California.