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‘A beautifully composed rave generation rhapsody … dripping with eroticism.’ Sunday Times
‘People talk about love at first sight, about the way that men and women fall for each other immediately, but there is also such a thing as friendship at first sight.’
In Paris, two couples form an intimacy that will change their lives forever. As they discover the clubs and cafés of the eleventh arrondissement, the four become inseparable, united by deeply held convictions about dating strategies, tunnelling in P.O.W. films and, crucially, the role of the Styrofoam cup in American thrillers. Experiencing the exhilarating highs of Ecstasy and sex, they reach a peak of rapture - but the come-down is unexpected and devastating.
Dyer fixes a dream of happiness - and its aftermath. Erotic and elegiac, funny and romantic, Paris Trance confirms Dyer as one of Britain’s most original and talented writers.
“A Tender is the Night for the Ecstasy Age.”
Tim Pears
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“A beautifully composed rave generation rhapsody … dripping with eroticism.”
Sunday Times
“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.”
new Yorker
“A skilfully crafted map of the human heart.”
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Geoff Dyer
Geoff Dyer is the author of Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi, amongst other books. Dyer has won the Somerset Maugham Prize, the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction, a Lannan Literary Award, the International Center of Photography’s 2006 Infinity Award for writing on photography and the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ E.M. Forster Award. In 2009 he was named GQ’s Writer of the Year. He won a National Book Critics Circle Award in 2012 and was a finalist in 1998. In 2015 he received a Windham Campbell Prize for non-fiction. His books have been translated into twenty-four languages. He currently lives in Los Angeles where he is Writer in Residence at the University of Southern California.