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This Is Memorial Device

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Script error: No such module "AfC submission catcheck". This Is Memorial Device: An Hallucinated Oral History of the Post-Punk Music Scene in Airdrie, Coatbridge and Environs 1978–1986 is the debut novel of critic David Keenan. The novel was first published in 2017 by Faber and Faber.

Predominately set in Airdrie during the mid 1980s the novel is structured as if it is an oral history involving Memorial Device, a working class post-punk band of almost-beens who disband before they reach mainstream success.

Reception[edit]

The novel won the inaugural London Magazine and Collyer Bristow Prize for Debut Fiction.[1]

Kirkus Reviews called the novel "stunning".[2] The London Magazine called the prose "realistic and highly readable".[3]

References[edit]

  1. "Winners Announced! The London Magazine & Collyer Bristow Award For Debut Fiction". Retrieved 2 January 2022.
  2. "A noble addition to the pantheon of rock novels about those who play from their hearts". Retrieved 3 January 2022.
  3. Barekat, Houman. "Review - This is Memorial Device by David Keenan". Retrieved 3 January 2022.



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