The Last Days of Disco: Volume 1 (Disco Days Trilogy) - Softcover

Ross, David F.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 191063302X ISBN 13: 9781910633021

Publisher: Orenda Books, 2015

Synopsis

Bobby 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.
 
***Longlisted for the Authors’ Club First Novel Award***
 
’This is a book that might just make you cry like nobody’s watching’ Iain MacLeod, Sunday Mail


’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’ Liam Rudden, Scotsman

‘Warm, funny and evocative’ Chris Brookmyre


––––––––––––––––––––––––


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...
 
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.

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. 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.
 
––––––––––––––––––––––––

‘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’ Press & Journal

’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' Herald Scotland

‘There’s a bittersweet poignancy to David F. Ross’s debut novel, The Last Days of Disco’ Edinburgh Evening News

‘Full of comedy, pathos and great tunes’ Hardeep Singh Kohli

‘Dark, hilarious  and heartbreaking’ Muriel Gray

‘Captures the time, the spirit … I loved it’ John Niven

‘If I saw that in a store I would buy it without even looking at what was inside’ Irvine Welsh

‘Like the vinyl that crackles off every page, The Last Days of Disco is as warm and authentic as Roddy Doyle at his very best’ Nick Quantrill

About this title

About the Author

David F. Ross was born in Glasgow in 1964 and has lived in Kilmarnock for over 30 years. He is a graduate of the Mackintosh School of Architecture at Glasgow School of Art, an architect by day, and a hilarious social-media commentator, author and enabler by night. His debut novel The Last Days of Disco was shortlisted for the Authors Club Best First Novel Award, and optioned for the stage by the Scottish National Theatre. All five of his novels have achieved notable critical acclaim and There’s Only One Danny Garvey, published in 2021 by Orenda Books, was shortlisted for the prestigious Saltire Society Prize for Scottish Fiction Book of the Year. David lives in Ayrshire.

Edition details

• Publisher: Orenda Books
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 191063302X
• ISBN 13: 9781910633021
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304