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Decadence
By (author) Richard Kelly Kemick
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Finalist for the 2026 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction “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.â€â€”Richard Kelly Kemick In Decadence, Richard Kelly Kemick’s “accidental memoir of a sort,â€Â 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, Decadence 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.
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Publisher | Biblioasis
Published date | 20 Aug 2026
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 264
Dimensions | 209 x 133 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 0g
ISBN | 978-1-7719-6713-6
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BISAC | biography & autobiography / personal memoirs
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