{"product_id":"9780857862716-the-colour-of-memory","title":"The Colour of Memory","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Not since Colin MacInnes's \u003ci\u003eCity of Spades\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAbsolute Beginners\u003c\/i\u003e thirty years ago has a novel stuck a flick-knife so accurately into the young and marginal city' \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'In the race to be first in describing the lost generation of the 1980s, Geoff Dyer in \u003ci\u003eThe Colour of Memory\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eCity of Spades\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAbsolute Beginners\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Colour of Memory\u003c\/i\u003e.' \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57536484868470,"sku":"9780857862716","price":8.41,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_36341625.jpg?v=1774289074","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780857862716-the-colour-of-memory","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}