"Famous Blue Raincoat" a Colm Toibin short story

[Dem]

One of the short stories in Colm Toibin's book "Mothers and sons" is titled
"Famous Blue Raincoat":

Negation comes in literally in "Famous Blue Raincoat", a story steeped in Irish folk and rock music, Geldof and Bono and the �manufactured sadness� of Leonard Cohen (the title comes from one of his biggest hits), the story of a sometime-singer-turned-photographer, who dreads the impending demise of the dark room. Her son discovers her old records and transfers them onto CDs, thereby reviving dark, half-acknowledged memories of a talented, temperamental sister long buried.

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Dem

[sulis]

Hmmm, sounds interesting book to read, I will look around for it. For some reason it made me think of a story I read a long time ago called "Empires of Azure" by Tanith Lee, where things start when she looks into a guy's blue eyes.........

[lizzytysh]

"manufactured sadness"

What is this supposed to mean and in this context ?


~ Lizzy

[sebmelmoth2003]

the johnstons - hey, tht's no way to say goodbye.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hey,_That ... ay_Goodbye

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06tq3th