The Colour of Memory

Title: The Colour of Memory
Author: Geoff Dyer
ISBN: 9781555976774
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 2014
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Revised ed.
Number of Pages: 288
Condition Note: New from the publisher
Publisher Description:

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.