{"product_id":"9780571330843","title":"This Is Memorial Device: An Hallucinated Oral History of the Post-Punk Music Scene in Airdrie, Coatbridge and environs 1978-1986","description":"\u003cp\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2017\u003cbr\u003eROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE MONTH\u003cbr\u003eLRB BOOK OF THE WEEK\u003cbr\u003eCAUGHT BY THE RIVER BOOK OF THE MONTH\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis Is Memorial Device\u003c\/i\u003e, the debut novel by David Keenan, is a love letter to the small towns of Lanarkshire in the west of Scotland in the late 1970s and early 80s as they were temporarily transformed by the endless possibilities that came out of the freefall from punk rock. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt follows a cast of misfits, drop-outs, small town visionaries and would-be artists and musicians through a period of time where anything seemed possible, a moment where art and the demands it made were as serious as your life. At its core is the story of Memorial Device, a mythic post-punk group that could have gone all the way were it not for the visionary excess and uncompromising bloody-minded belief that served to confirm them as underground legends. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten in a series of hallucinatory first-person eye-witness accounts that capture the prosaic madness of the time and place, heady with the magic of youth recalled, \u003ci\u003eThis Is Memorial Device \u003c\/i\u003ecombines the formal experimentation of David Foster Wallace at his peak circa \u003ci\u003eBrief Interviews With Hideous Men\u003c\/i\u003e with moments of delirious psychedelic modernism, laugh out loud bathos and tender poignancy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber and Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47123833553136,"sku":"9780571330843","price":12.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780571330843_p0.jpg?v=1763718225","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780571330843","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}