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Synopsis
In Geoff Dyer’s first novel, six friends plot a nomadic course through their mid-twenties as they scratch out an existence in near-destitute conditions in 1980’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.
These young, articulate, self-imposed have-nots, are connected by their rejection of mainstream society and their resolutely bohemian stance. In his vivid evocation of council flats and pubs, of a life lived in the teeth of romantic ideals, Dyer provides a shockingly relevant snapshot of a different Lost Generation.
These young, articulate, self-imposed have-nots, are connected by their rejection of mainstream society and their resolutely bohemian stance. In his vivid evocation of council flats and pubs, of a life lived in the teeth of romantic ideals, Dyer provides a shockingly relevant snapshot of a different Lost Generation.
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About the Author
Geoff Dyer is the author of Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi and three previous novels, as well as nine nonfiction books. Dyer has won the Somerset Maugham Prize, the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction, a Lannan Literary Award, the International Center of Photography's 2006 Infinity Award for writing on photography and the American Academy of Arts and Letters' E.M. Forster Award. He won a National Book Critics Circle Award in 2012 and was a finalist in 1998. He lives in London.
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