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The Colour of Memory
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ISBN10: 1555976778
ISBN13: 9781555976774
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: May 20 2014
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.91 Width: 5.52 Depth: 8.38
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781555976774
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: May 20 2014
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.91 Width: 5.52 Depth: 8.38
Language: English
The first novel, in revised form, from possibly the best living writer in Britain (The Daily Telegraph)
In The Colour of Memory, six friends plot a nomadic course through their mid-twenties as they scratch out an existence in near-destitute conditions in 1980s South London. They while away their hours drinking cheap beer, landing jobs and quickly squandering them, smoking weed, dodging muggings, listening to Coltrane, finding and losing a facsimile of love, collecting unemployment, and discussing politics in the way of the besotted young--as if they were employed only by the lives they chose.
In his vivid evocation of council flats and pubs, of a life lived in the teeth of romantic ideals, Geoff Dyer provides a shockingly relevant snapshot of a different Lost Generation.
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