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The Colour of Memory
Geoff Dyer
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Paperback. 'Not since Colin MacInnes's City of Spades and Absolute Beginners thirty years ago has a novel stuck a flick-knife so accurately into the young and marginal city' The Times Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 199 x 18. Weight in Grams: 198. 288 pages. 'Not since Colin MacInnes's City of Spades and Absolute Beginners thirty years ago has a novel stuck a flick-knife so accurately into the young and marginal city' The Times. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 164 x 199 x 18. Weight: 198.
'In the race to be first in describing the lost generation of the 1980s, Geoff Dyer in The Colour of Memory leads past the winning post. 'We're not lost,' one of his hero's friend's says, 'we're virtually extinct'. It is a small world in Brixton that Dyer commemorates, of council flat and instant wasteland, of living on the dole and the scrounge, of mugging, which is merely begging by force, and of listening to Callas and Coltrane. It is the nostalgia of the DHSS Bohemians, the children of unsocial security, in an urban landscape of debris and wreckage. Not since ... Read more
'In the race to be first in describing the lost generation of the 1980s, Geoff Dyer in The Colour of Memory leads past the winning post. 'We're not lost,' one of his hero's friend's says, 'we're virtually extinct'. It is a small world in Brixton that Dyer commemorates, of council flat and instant wasteland, of living on the dole and the scrounge, of mugging, which is merely begging by force, and of listening to Callas and Coltrane. It is the nostalgia of the DHSS Bohemians, the children of unsocial security, in an urban landscape of debris and wreckage. Not since ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Canongate Books
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857862716
SKU
V9780857862716
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99-99
About Geoff Dyer
Geoff Dyer is the author of Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi and three previous novels, as well as nine non-fiction books. Dyer has won the Somerset Maugham Prize, the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction, a Lannan Literary Award, the International Center of Photography's 2006 Infinity Award for writing on photography and the American Academy of Arts and ... Read more
Reviews for The Colour of Memory
Of all the hyped novels about 1980s London, it remains one of the most genuine
Peter Jukes
New Statesman
Captures the vigour and life of Brixton . . . There are vivid tableaux of street life, shot through a compassionate lens . . . sustained and powerful
Sunday Times
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Peter Jukes
New Statesman
Captures the vigour and life of Brixton . . . There are vivid tableaux of street life, shot through a compassionate lens . . . sustained and powerful
Sunday Times
... Read more