Geoff Dyer had always wanted to write a book about D. H. Lawrence. He wanted, in fact, to write his and "Lawrence book. and " The problem was, he had no idea what his and "Lawrence book and " would be, though he was determined to write a and "sober academic study. and " Luckily for the reader, he failed miserably.Out of Sheer Rage is a harrowing, comic, and grand act of literary deferral. At times a furious repudiation of the act of writing itself, this is not so much a book about Lawrence as a book about writing a book about Lawrence. As Lawrence wrote about his own study of Thomas Hardy, and "It will be about anything but Thomas Hardy, I am afraid-queer stuff-but not bad. and "