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David Keenan's Industry of Magic and Light transports readers to the Scottish town of Airdrie in the 1960s and 70s, through a catalogue of relics from the local counterculture scene â or as the small ad describes it âBunch of Local Hippy S**t for Sale. Job lotâ. Expressed narrowly, the novel tells the story of the purveyors of a revolutionary psychadelic light show. But thereâs nothing narrow about David Keenanâs books. Through this portrait of a band, we get to know a town, its inhabitants, their fascinations, their beliefs, their trips, and how it all hangs togetherâsocially, culturally, cosmically.⊠Like all of Keenanâs books, it's a ferocious ride of a novel that demands to be read at least twice to get any kind of grasp â which is no burden at all, given how much fun it is to spend time in his world.Â
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David Keenan is the author of five critically-acclaimed novels; the cult classic This is Memorial Device, which won the London Magazine Prize; For the Good Times, which won the Gordon Burn Prize; The Towers The Fields The Transmitters, Xstabeth and Monument Maker, which was a Rough Trade Book of the Year. He lives in Glasgow, Scotland.
Adam Biles is Literary Director at Shakespeare and Company. Buy a signed copy of his novel Feeding Time here: https://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/product/7209940/biles-adam-feeding-time
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