A lyrical memoir and family history told through four generations of fathers and sons in Northern Ireland
Darran Anderson is the author of Imaginary Cities (2015), chosen as a 'Book of the Year' by the Financial Times, the Guardian, the A.V. Club and others, and described by the Guardian as 'a dizzying and brilliant piece of creative non-fiction'. He has co-edited The Honest Ulsterman, 3-AM Magazine, Dogmatika and White Noise. He writes for the likes of the Atlantic, frieze magazine, and Magnum, and has given talks at the V&A, the LSE, the Robin Boyd Foundation and the Venice Biennale.
A radically different take on memoir... Inventory is a book of
hard-won truths, a detailed map of a journey out of the labyrinth,
the maze of memories, anecdotes, evasions and secrets… A book of
revelations, then, both large and small, its truths reverberate in
the imagination long after you finish reading it
*Observer*
Absolutely masterful
*Lisa McGee, writer of Derry Girls*
Inventory is a remarkable memoir; a work of auto-archaeology,
really, in which Darran Anderson disinters his own and his
country’s hard pasts, shaking life, love and loss out of the
objects of his youth in Northern Ireland. Bleak, tender, inventive
and oddly gripping, this is a book of restless ghosts, written in
defiance of darkness, and told by means of diving into what Nabokov
once called “the dream life of debris”
*Robert Macfarlane*
Important... vividly rendered... Inventory may in fact be above all
an exercise in memory -- gathering, questioning, verifying, and
identifying the voids. Even when the subjects are difficult to
catch, the hunt is always vital and compelling
*Times Literary Supplement*
A portrait of a family and a portrait of a city -- vivid, intense,
engrossing, and always beautifully written
*Kevin Barry*
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