{"product_id":"decadence-9781771967136","title":"Decadence","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard Kelly Kemick\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Biblioasis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/07\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.62lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.20w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781771967136","brand":"Biblioasis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47126677225609,"sku":"9781771967136","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_1743e175-6233-4466-a3fa-93b9c7c69ade.jpg?v=1782794511","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/decadence-9781771967136","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}