Keenan David

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Keenan David: Modern Mythologies [Vinyl LP]

<b>Glasgow, 1979. </b>A young boy is abducted outside a football ground.<br/><br/><b>Nine years later. </b>The boy's brother, Aaron Murray, is facing the final days of his youth. His own journey of grief and recovery has been guided by an angel, The Precious Gift - perhaps imagined, perhaps real - who has blessed Aaron with redemptive, messianic powers. These have enabled him to see through the past and present, joining the dots between a vast array of characters; ballerinas, soldiers, burlesque dancers, East End gangsters and the Vampire of Derry, all tied up in each other's fate.<br/><br/>As Aaron's visions span cities and decades, from wartime Paris to the Troubles in the 1970s and Mexico City in the 1980s, <i>Boyhood </i>builds to an extraordinary, intense, climactic moment of redemption.<br/><br/>A book of great joy, of laughter in the face of horror and delight in storytelling by the beloved and critically acclaimed author of <i>This Is Memorial Device</i>, <i><b>Boyhood </b></i>is a hymn to the resilience of youth, to the brave dreams of artists and lovers and a love letter to Glasgow - a city where magic happens.