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OverviewIn the race to be first in describing the lost generation of the eighties, 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 litening 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 Full Product DetailsAuthor: Geoff DyerPublisher: Little, Brown Book Group Imprint: Abacus Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 12.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 19.80cm Weight: 0.172kg ISBN: 9780349109190ISBN 10: 0349109192 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 06 November 2003 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: No Longer Our Product Availability: Out of stock The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviews'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 tableux of street life, shot through a compassionate lens ... sustained and powerful' SUNDAY TIMES * 'Dyer writes crisp Martin Amis-inflected prose, full of acute and neat phrases' TLS Author InformationAuthor of 3 novels, a study of John Berger & 4 genre-defying titles including But Beautiful, which won the Somerset Maugham Prize and the most recent Yoga For People Who Can't Be Bothered To Do It. His book of essays, Anglo-English Attitudes, was also critically acclaimed. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |