The Colour of Memory

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.

• Author
• Geoff Dyer

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 288

• Publisher
• Graywolf Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9781555976774

• Settings
• London, England

• Genres
• fiction, contemporary, novels, literature

• Release date
• 2014