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Binding
Hardback
Number of Pages
288
Age Group
All
Language
English
Book Summary
This is a literary fiction novel. It maps memory and urban life in the 1980s, focusing on a tight circle of friends living on the margins. The setting is Brixtonโs council flats and the streets around them, a place of dole queues, small ambitions, and makeshift culture. The emotional tone is restrained, wry, and quietly defiant, crafted for readers who value precise storytelling and social realism.
The content is presented as a story-led, character-driven odyssey through a city in flux. The narration favors a lean, laconic voice that sharpens social observation with quiet humor. Immersive period detailsโmusic, slang, daily rituals, the textures of the streetsโmake the era feel immediate and tangible without melodrama.
Readers move through scenes that feel cinematic, where memory and the everyday shape choices and chances. Itโs a book that invites reflection rather than spectacle, letting the lives of its characters speak for themselves and offering a poignant portrait of belonging, resilience, and the costs of a changing city.
What the reader gains after finishing is a deeper understanding of how memory shapes identity, a nuanced sense of a specific moment in urban Britain, and a lasting impression of a city and its people. It builds empathy, curiosity, and a quiet, enduring appreciation for place and the lives that unfold within it.
Product Details
Author
Geoff Dyer
Publisher
Penguin Random House
Number of Pages
288
Language
English
SKU
9780857862716
ISBN
9780857862716
Reading Age
All
Dimensions
12.9x1.8x19.8cm
Binding
Hardback
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