{"product_id":"9781771967136","title":"PRE-ORDER NOW Decadence by Richard Kelly Kemick","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e PRE-ORDER NOW - Published: 20\/08\/2026 \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\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 KemickIn Decadence, 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. Reminding the reader 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, Decadence 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 and living. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56369138205045,"sku":"9781771967136","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781771967136.jpg?v=1763552221","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781771967136","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}