The colour of memory

R$ 92,90

Sinopse

'In the race to be first in describing the lost generation of the 1980s, Geoff Dyer in The Colour of Memory 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 City of Spades and Absolute Beginners 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 The Colour of Memory.' The Times

Participantes

Autor: Geoff Dyer

Autor

GEOFF DYER

O jornalista e escritor Geoff Dyer nasceu em 1958, em Cheltenham, na Inglaterra. Conhecido pelo estilo irônico, quase debochado, Dyer parte de reflexões íntimas para discutir temas universais, numa mistura sutil de ficção e não ficção. Autor, entre outros, do romance Jeff em Veneza, Morte em Varanasi, publicado no Brasil em 2010, Dyer remete ao chamado ensaio pessoal, estilo que permeia todas as suas obras, dos artigos sobre viagens (reunidos em Ioga para quem não está nem aí, 2007) à miscelânea de textos curtos de Otherwise known as the human condition (2011).