IN THE DARK ROOM

Boldly combining the highly personal with the brilliantly scholarly, In the Dark Room explores the question of how memory works emot ionally and culturally. It is narrated through the prism of the author's experience of losing both his parents, his mother when he w as sixteen, his father when he was on the cusp of adulthood and of trying, after a breakdown some years later, to piece things toget her. Drawing on the lessons of centuries of literature, philosophy and visual art, Dillon interprets the relics of his parents and o f his ch...[Read more]