Synopses & Reviews
Luke moves to Paris and, with his new love and the other expatriate couple from whom they become inseparable, wanders the Eleventh Arrondissement where clubs, cafés, banter, and ecstasy now occupy Gertrude Stein's city "which is not real but is really there."
In Paris Trance, Geoff Dyer fixes a dream of happiness--and its aftermath--with photographic precision. Boldly erotic and hauntingly elegiac, comic and romantic, this brilliant reconception of the classic expatriate novels of the Lost Generation confirms Dyer as one of our most original and talented writers.
Review
"Entrancing . . . I can't think of a recent novel that better describes the scarily charged beginning of a love affair."--
The New York Times Book Review "A beautifully composed rave-generation rhapsody . . . In prose dripping with eroticism and aching with melancholy, Dyer masterfully dissects the vicissitudes of twenty-something love."--
The Sunday Times (London) "Witty and sexy and experimental."--Lucinda Ballantyne,
The Boston Globe "Absorbing and darkly romantic . . . However it's labeled--as a novel thick with essay point, and old-fashioned story in postmodern dress, or a fiction that contains its own dissertation--Paris Trance is a haunting work."--Tom Nolan,
San Francisco Chronicle Book Review "
Tender is the Night for the Ecstasy Age."--Tim Pears, author of
In the Place of Fallen Leaves"A beautiful, remarkable book about sad, unremarkable lives."--Ian Sansom, The Guardian (UK)
Review
"Sexy, hopelessly romantic, and almost sneakily meditative, Dyer's novel invokes the shades of Hemingway and Fitzgerald, but as they might be imagined by Truffaut."--
The New Yorker"There is a delicacy and a charm--and, of course, a humor--to Dyer's account . . . that brings the '20s and the '90s together in a decisive unison."--Jonathan Levi, Los Angeles Times
"I can't think of a recent novel that better describes the scarily charged beginning of a love affair . . . Entrancing." --Daniel Melsohn, The New York Times Book Review
"Intriguing, absorbing, and darkly romantic...[a] reamarkable novel."--Tom Nolan, San Francisco Chronicle
Synopsis
The definitive novel about young love and the city of Paris—sexy, intense, and daring.
Synopsis
Paris Trance is the story of two expatriates, Luke and Alex, who meet in Paris and become inseparable. Each falls in love, and the two couples travel the city together in a fever of indulgence and self-discovery. Boldly erotic and hauntingly elegaic, comic and romantic, this brilliant retelling of the classic Lost Generation novels confirmed Geoff Dyer as one of our most daring and versatile writers.
About the Author
Geoff Dyer is the author of
But Beautiful:
A Book about Jazz (NPP, 1996) and
Out of Sheer Rage:
Wrestling with D.H. Lawrence (NPP, 1997), which was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award. He lives in England.