'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 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.
A low-keyed style and laconic wit touch up The Colour of Memory.'
The Times
General
Imprint: |
Canongate Books Ltd
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
November 2012 |
First published: |
November 2012 |
Authors: |
Geoff Dyer
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Dimensions: |
198 x 128 x 18mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - B-format
|
Pages: |
280 |
Edition: |
Main |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-85786-271-6 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
|
LSN: |
0-85786-271-5 |
Barcode: |
9780857862716 |
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