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Chapters (15)
  1. Cover
  2. Landing Page
  3. For The Good Times
  4. Epigraph
  5. Contents
  6. Part One: The Swan, In Return
  7. Part Two: The Best Decade What Ever Lived
  8. Part Three: Bobby Sands Has Come to Pass
  9. Part Four: A Word Set Teeth into Silence
  10. Part Five: The Ocean and the Shore
  11. Part Six: The Hood of The Snake, what is Miracle
  12. Copyright credits
  13. About the Author
  14. Also by the Author
  15. Copyright

Forgetting.

It is the power of the first and the last man.

But wait till I tell you:

Copyright credits

‘It’s Impossible’

English Lyric by Sid Wayne

Spanish Words and Music by Armando Manzanero

Copyright © 1968 by Universal Music Publishing MGB Edim., S.A. de C.V.

Copyright Renewed

All Rights for the U.S. Administered by Universal Music – MGB Songs

Used by permission of Hal Leonard Europe Limited

‘Masquerade’

Lyric by Paul Francis Webster

Music by John Jacob Loeb

Copyright © 1932 (Renewed 1960) Webster Music Co./Ahlert Fred Music Corp./BMG Gold Songs

Rondor International Inc./BMG Rights Management (US) LLC

Used by permission of Hal Leonard Europe Limited

‘For The Good Times’

Words and Music by Kris Kristofferson

Copyright © 1968 by Universal Music – Careers

Copyright Renewed

Universal Music Publishing MGB Limited

Used by permission of Hal Leonard Europe Limited

About the Author

David Keenan grew up in Airdrie in the late ’70s and early 1980s. A senior critic for The Wire, he is also the author of two books: England’s Hidden Reverse and This Is Memorial Device, his debut novel, which was a Rough Trade Book of the Year and shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2017.

Also by the Author

England’s Hidden Reverse

This Is Memorial Device

Copyright

First published in the UK in 2019
by Faber & Faber Ltd
Bloomsbury House
74–77 Great Russell Street
London WC1B 3DA

This ebook edition first published in 2019

Cover design by Faber
Cover photograph courtesy of the author

The right of David Keenan to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with Section 77 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

This ebook is copyright material and must not be copied, reproduced, transferred, distributed, leased, licensed or publicly performed or used in any way except as specifically permitted in writing by the publishers, as allowed under the terms and conditions under which it was purchased or as strictly permitted by applicable copyright law. Any unauthorised distribution or use of this text may be a direct infringement of the author’s and publisher’s rights, and those responsible may be liable in law accordingly

ISBN 978–0–571–34053–8

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