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Souvenir

By: Michael Bracewell

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Paperback | 12 September 2024 | Edition Number 1

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192 Pages

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12.8 x 19.7 x 1.2

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A vivid eulogy for London of the late 1970s and early 80s - the last years prior to the rise of the digital city.

An elliptical, wildly atmospheric remembrance of the sites and soundtrack, at once aggressively modern and strangely elegiac, that accompanied the twilight of one era and the dawn of another.

Haunted bedsits, post-punk entrepreneurs in the Soho Brasserie, occultists in Fitzrovia, Docklands before Canary Wharf, frozen suburbs in the winter of 1980...

Industry Reviews

Michael Bracewell proves himself to be nothing less than the poet laureate of late capitalism

The best evocation I've read of London in the '80s

A tone poem of clean reflection and hallucinatory detail

Michael Bracewell's exquisitely written book is a suspended act of retrieval, a partisan recall; a sustained, subtle summary of our recent past, and an epitaph for a future we never had. Told in shards of images, in postcards from the streets, clubs, clothes and chords, SOUVENIR reclaims the capital city. It is the story of a London told in a demi-decade,1975-1908 - one which formed the modern world. After SOUVENIR, that time and place will be forever remembered, in Bracewell's elegant prose

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