{"product_id":"9781771967136","title":"Decadence","description":"\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. Reminding the reader 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 and living.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Richard Kelly Kemick (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Biblioasis |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2026-07-07","offer_id":48428547113215,"sku":"9781771967136","price":24.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_77db4b5a-581f-4a2c-bcfe-a5c72c6aa523.jpg?v=1776959043","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781771967136","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}