· Geoff Dyer is a brilliant writer and his photographic writing technique is stunning. Unnecessary quibble of the week: The book was first published in Its latest edition, from , still spells Coldharbour as two words. The Colour of Memory; Geoff Dyer; Canongate Books; ISBN Available from online retailers in hardback, paperback and www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 3 mins. The Colour of Memory. “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.”. The Times. “In the race to be first in describing the lost generation of the s, Geoff Dyer in The Colour of Memory leads past the winning post. Mark Ford. From the Reviews: " (W)hat I liked best about The Colour of Memory was its depiction of the frustrations of life that become one of the central themes of Dyer’s later work" - Clancy Martin, The New York Times Book Review. "Yet for all the idleness it portrays, The Colour of Memory is an excellent, highly entertaining www.doorway.ru: Geoff Dyer.
Geoff Dyer's The Colour of Memory is the perfect book for rainy afternoons. There is no plot, which seems slightly off-putting at first; but the almost musical quality of Dyer's prose more than makes up for it. I was unsure about this one at first, but it left me with a most pleasant, warm and fuzzy feeling. Total price: £ Add both to Basket. One of these items is dispatched sooner than the other. Show details. Buy the selected items together. This item: The Colour of Memory by Geoff Dyer Paperback £ Only 12 left in stock (more on the way). Sent from and sold by Amazon. 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 s South www.doorway.ru while away their hours drinking cheap beer, landing jobs and quickly squandering them, smoking weed, dodging.
Geoff Dyer's The Colour of Memory is the perfect book for rainy afternoons. There is no plot, which seems slightly off-putting at first; but the almost musical quality of Dyer's prose more than makes up for it. I was unsure about this one at first, but it left me with a most pleasant, warm and fuzzy feeling. 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 s South London. They wile 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 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 s 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.
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