Red Riding Nineteen Eighty Three
David Peace
Belletristik/Erzählende Literatur
Beschreibung
Nineteen Eighty Three's three intertwining storylines see the Quartet's central themes of corruption and the perversion of justice come to a head as BJ, the rent boy from Nineteen Seventy Four, the lawyer Big John Piggott - who's as near as you get to a hero in Peace's world - and Maurice Jobson, the senior cop whose career of corruption and brutality has set all this in motion, find themselves on a collision course that can only end in a terrible vengeance.
Nineteen Eighty Three is an epic tale which concluded an extraordinary body of work confirming Peace as the most innovative and remarkable new British crime writer to have emerged for years.
Rezensionen
The slow-burning, word-of-mouth success story of British publishing... These four books recreated the pervasive sense of terror and corruption with a hammering, semi-magical style loosely reminiscent of James Ellroy, but steeped in something far more bleak and English... the evil twin of Life On Mars... Peace may have succeeded in creating an enduring literature for a curiously undocumented area of Britain
Singular and memorable
Bleakly brilliant
He's in a class of his own in terms of ambition. He's trying to write these alternative histories of events we know quite well in a challenging way. The fact that he'
Compelling
Haunting evocations of 70s and 80s Yorkshire - interlinking tales of very fallible coppers, very noir hacks, very human killers
A British crime master work. Required reading ... Compelling, disturbing and uneasy.
Original, difficult, brilliant
Kundenbewertungen
crime classic, Yorkshire ripper, Tokyo year zero, serial killer, peter Sutcliffe, the damned utd, Maxine peak, northern gothic, northern literature, Manchester, child abduction, police procedural, romani, patient x, sean bean, Andrew Garfield