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L'Avventura

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L'Avventura

By: Geoff Dyer
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Summary

A summer that was also the summer of our lives.

The late 1990s, a sun-dazzled European city . . .

Invited to a dance party, a group of friends decide to spend three days walking there, cross-country, camping at night. They find themselves in a landscape at once ordinary and enchanted, haunted by echoes and shimmering with romantic promise. At a lake, a lucky discovery alters the genre of their journey, introducing a thread of threat, temptation and betrayal. What will happen? Is Paradise destined, always, to be lost?

Brimming with sparkling dialogue and screwball metaphysics, L'Avventura is a beautiful, lyrical novel about friendship, youth, falling in love and the passing of time.
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Critic Reviews

"Geoff Dyer returns to fiction with a witty poetic novel poised somewhere between Bergman's Smiles of a Summer Night and John Milton: a celebration of conversation, friendship, summer, and that short moment in life when one is no longer young but not yet old. Read it once for the sheer pleasure of it; read it again and you'll find the echoes and allusions you missed; read it a third time and you'll realize there is no end to it" (DANIEL KEHLMANN)
"Funny, deeply romantic and sharply beautiful — like a film played out on the page" (JOANNA HOGG)
"PRAISE FOR GEOFF DYER: 'A national treasure'" (ZADIE SMITH)
"Dyer writes crisp Martin Amis-inflected prose, full of acute and neat phrases"
"Dazzling and peculiar . . . A prodigious display of virtuosity"
"Bulges with energy and sings with joy"
"Dyer is wonderful on the strangeness of remembering itself"
"I find [Dyer] an irresistible writer" (RICHARD FORD)
"Dyer is a smart, witty writer . . . a keen commentator on the ironies of contemporary life from the very first page"
"A true original" (WILLIAM BOYD)
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