{"product_id":"decadence-9781771967136","title":"Decadence","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Richard Kelly Kemick\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Biblioasis\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Biblioasis\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Essays\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"The genre of memoir is bullshit (as I humbly posit). No one actually lives like they are moving along some grand Freytag's triangle. Rather, we live within isolated instances, specific struggles and victories, which, when compiled, form a narrative.\"--Richard Kelly Kemick\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eDecadence\u003c\/i\u003e, Richard Kelly Kemick's \"accidental memoir of a sort,\" the author ranges widely through his myriad preoccupations and obsessions--volleyball, municipal landfills, dogs, high school plays, Christmas villages, love--out of which the shape of a unique sensibility is revealed. Reminiscent of the three Davids--Rakoff, Sedaris, and Wallace--these essays accrete into a portrait of a man trying to make sense of a world in which there are no goddamn rules; and yet one in which every action has sometimes profound consequences. A book of intelligence and care and kindness and humour and yearning and the occasional epiphany, \u003cem\u003eDecadence\u003c\/em\u003e gathers up from the odds and ends of living what makes a modern life--quiet and desperate as it may at times be--worth celebrating.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Biblioasis","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47999464112279,"sku":"9781771967136","price":954.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781771967136.webp?v=1783600712","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/decadence-9781771967136","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}