Geoff Dyer's 'The Missing of the Somme' Reconsidered
On Veteran’s Day, Louisa Thomas hails Geoff Dyer’s book on the First World War and how it was remembered that reveals as much about the author as the human condition. The Missing of the Somme is a book on war unlike any other.
Geoff Dyer is famous (in an enviably cognoscenti way) and infamous (in an enviably inconsequential way) for writing about whatever happens to make him itch: idleness, restlessness, sex, jazz, photography, procrastination, vanity, masturbation, fashion shows, televised Olympic sailing, poetry, pot.
