{"product_id":"9781910633021-last-days-of-disco","title":"The Last Days of Disco","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA fabulously funny, heart-warming and heart-breaking salute to 1980s Scotland. The Last Days of Disco is about family, music, small-time gangsters . and the fear of being sent to the Falklands by the biggest gangster of them all.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBobby and Joey’s new mobile disco business seems like the answer to everything, until they lock horns with the local gangster … First in the critically acclaimed, hilarious and heartbreaking Disco Days Trilogy, by one of Scotland’s finest writers.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e***Longlisted for the Authors’ Club First Novel Award***\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e ’This is a book that might just make you cry like nobody’s watching’ \u003cb\u003eIain MacLeod, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSunday Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ’Ross creates beautifully rounded characters full of humanity and perhaps most of all, hope. It will make you laugh. It will make you cry. It s rude, keenly observed and candidly down to earth’ \u003cb\u003eLiam Rudden, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eScotsman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘Warm, funny and evocative’ \u003cb\u003eChris Brookmyre\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ––––––––––––––––––––––––\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Early in the decade that taste forgot, Fat Franny Duncan is on top of the world. He is the undoubted King of the Ayrshire Mobile Disco scene, controlling and ruling the competition with an iron fist. But the future is uncertain. A new partnership is coming and is threatening to destroy the big man’s empire.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Bobby Cassidy and Joey Miller have been best mates since primary school. Joey is an idealist; Bobby just wants to get laid and avoid following his brother Gary to the Falklands. A partnership in their new mobile disco venture seems like the answer to everything.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Last Days of Disco\u003c\/i\u003e is about family, music, small-time gangsters … and the fear of being sent to the Falklands by the biggest gangster of them all. Witty, energetic and entirely authentic, it’s also heartbreakingly honest, weaving together tragedy and comedy with an uncanny and unsettling elegance. A simply stunning debut.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e ––––––––––––––––––––––––\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘Crucially Ross's novel succeeds in balancing light and dark, in that it can leap smoothly from brutal social realism to laugh-out-loud humour within a few sentences’ \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePress \u0026amp; Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ’More than just a nostalgic recreation of the author's youth, it's a compassionate, affecting story of a family in crisis at a time of upheaval and transformation, when disco wasn't the only thing whose days were numbered' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHerald Scotland\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘There’s a bittersweet poignancy to David F. Ross’s debut novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Last Days of Disco\u003c\/i\u003e’ \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEdinburgh Evening News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘Full of comedy, pathos and great tunes’ \u003cb\u003eHardeep Singh Kohli\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘Dark, hilarious  and heartbreaking’ \u003cb\u003eMuriel Gray\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘Captures the time, the spirit … I loved it’ \u003cb\u003eJohn Niven\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘If I saw that in a store I would buy it without even looking at what was inside’ \u003cb\u003eIrvine Welsh\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘Like the vinyl that crackles off every page, \u003ci\u003eThe Last Days of Disco\u003c\/i\u003e is as warm and authentic as Roddy Doyle at his very best’ \u003cb\u003eNick Quantrill\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31646040195169,"sku":"9781910633021","price":6.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_33789222.jpg?v=1744882546","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781910633021-last-days-of-disco","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}