Name: Industry of Magic and Light
Brand: David Keenan

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

9781399603249signed

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Format Books GB

Hardback

Format detail

Limited edition

Release date

2022-08-25

Signed copies

Signed copies: Yes

Supplier GB

Hachette

Tax rate GB

Zero:0

UPC / Barcode

9781399603249

1 / Extended format: Yes / Hardback / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: Yes

Artist

David Keenan

Genre GB

Music

Label GB

White Rabbit

Scottish author, critic, musician and owner of the now defunct [l=Volcanic Tongue] shop, mail-order business and record label.

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The prequel to the critically acclaimed and award-winning This is Memorial Device

Industry of Magic and Light is a love letter to the counterculture of the 1960s and a requiem for its passing. The much-anticipated prequel to Keenan's cult classic debut, This is Memorial Device, Industry of Magic and Light is set in the same mythical Airdrie in the 1960s and early 70s and centres on a group of hippies running their own psychedelic light show. Told in two halves - the first in the form of an inventory of the contents of a caravan abandoned by one of the hippies, the second in the form of a tarot card reading - it is not so much a book about the 1960s as a direct channelling of the decade's energies, bringing to life how even the smallest and dreariest of working class towns felt so full of possibility in the wake of the psychedelic moment. Via artefacts from the time - everything from poetry chapbooks, record reviews and musical instruments through bubblegum wrappers, bicycle repair kits and mysterious cassette recordings - the book opens out into adventures along the hippy trail in Afghanistan and behind the Iron Curtain that leads a cast of new and returning characters - as well as the authorities - to believe that they are literally making magic. Simultaneously a forensics of the 1960s, a detective novel, an occult thriller, a vision quest, and the hallucinatory exposition of a moment where it felt like anything was possible, Industry of Magic and Life brings to life the streets of small working class towns as transformational sites of utopian joy.

Industry of Magic and Light

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