{"product_id":"decadence","title":"Decadence","description":"\u003ch2\u003eRichard Kelly Kemick\u003c\/h2\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\n \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 \u003cem\u003eDecadence\u003c\/em\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","brand":"UTP","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":59549331521822,"sku":"9781771967136","price":24.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0669\/3584\/9246\/files\/9781771967136.jpg?v=1783090122","url":"https:\/\/www.cedarcanoebooks.com\/products\/decadence","provider":"Cedar Canoe Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}