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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19980906
Author:Kelly Murphy Mason

OUT OF SHEER RAGE

Wrestling With D.H. Lawrence

By Geoff Dyer

North Point. 242 pp. $23

Though its stated mission is the treatment of D.H. Lawrence's life and work, Geoff Dyer's sixth book is really a rallying cry for those people whose best intentions confound them. On the first page of Out of Sheer Rage, Dyer admits defeat: "If, I said to myself, if I can apply myself to a sober -- I can remember saying that word `sober' to myself, over and over, until it acquired a hysterical, near-demented, if I can apply myself to a sober, academic study of D.H. Lawrence then that will force me to pull ...

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