{"product_id":"boyhood","title":"Boyhood","description":"\u003cp\u003eBoyhood opens in 1979 with the abduction of a young boy outside a Glasgow football ground. Nine years later, the boy's brother, Aaron Murray, is on the cusp of that moment when adolescence becomes adulthood. His own journey of grief and recovery has been guided by an angel, 'The Precious Gift' - perhaps imagined, perhaps real - who has blessed Aaron with redemptive, messianic powers. These have enabled him to see through the past and present, joining the dots between a vast array of characters; ballerinas, soldiers, poets, burlesque dancers, East End gangsters and the Vampire of Derry over five decades, all tied up in each other's fate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs Aaron's visions span cities and decades, from wartime Paris to the Troubles in the 1970s, Mexico City in the 1980s to - of course - Glasgow, Boyhood builds to an extraordinary, intense, climactic moment of redemption.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA book of great joy, of laughter in the face of horror and delight in storytelling by the beloved and critically acclaimed author of This Is Memorial Device, Boyhood is a hymn to the resilience of youth, to the brave dreams of artists and lovers and a love letter to Glasgow - a city where magic happens.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e~ ~ ~ ~ ~\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePraise:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Boyhood is a marvel. Impossible to sum up, it is a true novel, jumping with event and spectacle and showmanship - while speaking in its own extraordinary voice of tenderness and violence and pity and love, along with the gorgeous great fun and wonder of being alive. David Keenan claims the poetic tradition of Mallarme and Apollinaire and Rimbaud and makes it his own, lighting up the streets and nights of his story in syntax that cracks and melds and conjoins, and demands the reader slow down and take in the sound and rhythm of sentences and phrases as though learning to speak them for ourselves. This is the literature of the flaneur, the surrealist, the wide-awake dreamer and myth maker made new. Singing with the passion of ideas, of reading, learning, music, the magic of a richly furnished imagination and the wonder of ritual, all formally, fully, made up and brought together - so many lives, so many dramas, deaths, loves - this is a book that was an experience I never wanted to end\" - Kirsty Gunn\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Reading Keenan is like reclaiming your own imagination. Writing that doesn't just remind you - but insists belligerently over and over again - everything is possible, everything MUST be possible\" - Lias Saoudi\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A wild-hearted secret history of the twentieth century, with an occult Glasgow at its dark heart. Keenan is a magician, conjuring a world of poetry, murder, obsession and love, where nothing is real and everything matters\" - Mat Osman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"With a true, stylish flourish, Keenan creates a sprawling, multilayered, almost modern picaresque novel that celebrates the wildness of Glasgow and the creative, anarchic language of Glaswegians . . . a challenging, unconventional and daring piece of fiction\" - The Independent\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Keenan consistently blurs the roles of voyeur, guardian and storyteller in a complex, multi-threaded structure that, while centred on 1980s Glasgow, flits freely between numerous locations in time and space . . . A psychedelic post-punk fantasia dense with literary allusions and esoteric lore - not to mention his fierce love for the city in which it's set\" - The Herald\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"If free jazz was fiction . . . Exhilarating and ambitious, fizzing with the possibilities of fiction, dense with allusion and drunk on a strange dreamlike magic, Boyhood could be hailed as extraordinary if extraordinary wasn't by now par for the course for Keenan\" - Buzz\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53612040159579,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0569\/8951\/5850\/files\/zabriskie_david_keenan_boyhood.jpg?v=1784563291","url":"https:\/\/zabriskie.de\/products\/boyhood","provider":"Zabriskie Buchladen für Kultur und Natur","version":"1.0","type":"link"}