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Michael Bracewell proves himself to be nothing less than the poet laureate of late capitalism -- Jonathan Coe The best evocation I've read of London in the '80s -- Neil Tennant A tone poem of clean reflection and hallucinatory detail -- Michael Bracewell

The best evocation I've read of London in the '80s -- Neil Tennant Michael Bracewell's exquisitely written book is a suspended act of retrieval, a partisan recall; a sustained, subtle summary of our recent past, and an epitaph for a future we never had. Told in shards of images, in postcards from the streets, clubs, clothes and chords, SOUVENIR reclaims the capital city. It is the story of a London told in a demi-decade,1975-1908 - one which formed the modern world. After SOUVENIR, that time and place will be forever remembered, in Bracewell's elegant prose -- Philip Hoare A tone poem of clean reflection and hallucinatory detail -- Jon Savage Michael Bracewell proves himself to be nothing less than the poet laureate of late capitalism -- Jonathan Coe

Michael Bracewell proves himself to be nothing less than the poet laureate of late capitalism -- Jonathan Coe

The best evocation I've read of London in the '80s -- Neil Tennant Michael Bracewell's exquisitely written book is a suspended act of retrieval, a partisan recall; a sustained, subtle summary of our recent past, and an epitaph for a future we never had. Told in shards of images, in postcards from the streets, clubs, clothes and chords, SOUVENIR reclaims the capital city. It is the story of a London told in a demi-decade,1975-1908 - one which formed the modern world. After SOUVENIR, that time and place will be forever remembered, in Bracewell's elegant prose -- Philip Hoare A tone poem of clean reflection and hallucinatory detail -- Jon Savage Michael Bracewell proves himself to be nothing less than the poet laureate of late capitalism -- Jonathan Coe Nimble and impressionistic, Souvenir ... creeps up on you, at once intimate and remote, austere and yet beguiling. Souvenir is a one-off -- Anthony Quinn * FINANCIAL TIMES *

Michael Bracewell proves himself to be nothing less than the poet laureate of late capitalism -- Jonathan Coe The best evocation I've read of London in the '80s -- Neil Tennant

Michael Bracewell proves himself to be nothing less than the poet laureate of late capitalism -- Jonathan Coe The best evocation I've read of London in the '80s -- Neil Tennant A tone poem of clean reflection and hallucinatory detail -- Jon Savage

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Michael Bracewell is the author of six novels and two works of non-fiction including SAINT RACHEL, PERFECT TENSE, REMAKE/REMODEL and ENGLAND IS MINE. His writing has been published in THE FABER BOOK OF POP and a selection of his writings on art and culture, THE SPACE BETWEEN was published in 2012. He has written widely on modern and contemporary art, most notably about the work of Bridget Riley and Richard Hamilton on the occasion of recent exhibitions of their work at The National Gallery, London. Also on the art of Damien Hirst and Gilbert & George for the Tate Gallery, London. His most recent publications include the Introduction to a new edition of Oscar Wilde's classic essay, 'The Critic As Artist'.

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