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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.

The Colour of Memory

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      Publisher: Graywolf Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 20/05/2014
      ISBN13: 9781555976774, 978-1555976774
      ISBN10: 1555976778

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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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