Description
Book Synopsis , Decades tend to crest halfway through, and 1995 was
the year of the Nineties: peak Britpop (Oasis v Blur), peak YBA (Tracey Emin's tent), peak New Lad (when Nick Hornby published
High Fidelity, when James Brown's
Loaded detonated the publishing industry, and when pubs were finally allowed to stay open on a Sunday). It was the year of
The Bends, the year Danny Boyle started filming
Trainspotting, the year Richey Edwards went missing, the year Alex Garland wrote
The Beach, the year Blair changed Clause IV after a controversial vote at the Labour Conference.
Not only was the mid-Nineties perhaps the last time that rock stars, music journalists and pop consumers held onto a belief in rock's mystical power, it was a period of huge cultural upheaval - in art, literature, publishing and drugs. And it was a period of almost unparalleled hedonism, a time when many people thought they deserved to live the rock and roll li
Trade ReviewDylan Jones' delicious, hilarious new book has given me more insight into the British psyche than Henry James. And the writing is fire -- Courtney Love
Amazing achievement -- Tracey Emin
The best book on the nineties I have ever read. Dylan Jones is the best observer of the times we have. An absolutely brilliant book -- Alan McGee
Great book -- Chris Salewicz
Considering the hold that Britpop had on the nation's psyche in the nineties, it's amazing how short-loved the movement was. This book shines a light on just how toxic nineties lad culture could be for girls with guitars -- Sarah Ditum * THE SUNDAY TIMES *
A kind of stealth memoir. We see the decade's utopian promise smothered by money and cocaine rather than Nixon and Vietnam. One can read the decade as a period of brash, breathless momentum, especially in technology and the arts -- Dorian Lynskey * LITERARY REVIEW *
Fascinating * GRAZIA *
Dylan Jones's
Faster Than a Cannonball captures the exuberance and spirit of the Nineties [and] sheds light on the wider cultural and economic environment -- Henry Williams * SPIKED *
Fantastic -- Matthew d'Ancona * TORTOISE *
