- Paperback: 416 pages
- Publisher: Serpent's Tail; 1st Edition, 1st Printing edition (14 Nov 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1852426845
- ISBN-13: 978-1852426842
- Product Dimensions: 21.9 x 13.5 x 3.1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 966,982 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'Quite simply, this is the future of British crime fiction'. Time Out; 'Peace has found his own voice - full of dazzling, intense poetry and visceral violence' Uncut
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‘Nineteen Eighty Three is a fitting conclusion for one of the finest series in contemporary Biritsh crime writing’
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'No more dead dogs and slashed swans for us,' whispered Dick Alderman, like this was good news - It wasn't. Read the first page
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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
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Heart of darkness,
This review is from: Red Riding Nineteen Eighty Three (Five Star) (Paperback)
FOr anyone with even a passing interest in crime fiction, David Peace's Red Riding quartet is essential reading. Set in Yorkshire throughout the seventies and eighties, Peace balances the case of the Yorkshire Ripper with the theme of police corruption. Not cheerful stuff then, but fantastically crafted and well observed. All four books are violent and disturbing outings. Peace's characters are cruel, selfish and self-loathing creations that stay with the reader long after the book is finished. 1983 is the final part of the quartet and should only be read after completing the first three. This isn't the type of series you can miss bits out of. As usual the plot is tense and draws the reader in. The kind of book that takes one long sitting, it is very hard to put down. Indeed, due to the breakneck pace of Peace's startling prose, it is often impossible to withdraw from the narrative at all. This novel is the strongest of the four, utillising a tight yet intricate structure, thrusting the reader back and forth across the decades revealing startling truths about the characters, many of whom are familiar from earlier in the series. Indeed, many of the images used here are also familiar from earlier giving the reader a sense of a claustrophobic communal nightmare. If you've never read any David Peace, I suggest starting with the superb 1974 and working your way through. If you've already read the first three books, you need to read this. But then you know that already.
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As bad decisions go......,
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This review is from: Red Riding Nineteen Eighty Three: Red Riding Quartet (Paperback)
I watched the TV adaptation of these books and thoroughly enjoyed them (especially Sean Bean, and I normally avoid anything with him in it) so based on this, and the premise that a TV or film adaptation will cut swathes of interesting and enjoyable stuff out in order to fit the story into a broadcast time frame I bought all 4 of the quartet in one go.
What a dreadful mistake. I read them one after the other, hoping that the books would pick up and that the story would get better - my hopes were in vain, these are, in my opinion, awful pieces of literature, turgid, repetitive, obscene, cliched, and poorly plotted jumping all over the shop. I wish I could erase the memory of these books, but I can't. If I could get away with awarding no stars I would - get the DVD of the TV serial instead, it's much better.
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A stunning conclusion to the Quartet,
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This review is from: Nineteen Eighty Three: Red Riding Quartet Pt. 4 (Paperback)
When a figure dominates a genre as James Ellroy does modern crime fiction, then it is inevitable that blurb writers suggest unnatural comparisons between authors and the master. Many have suffered. Ian Rankin is Scotland's Ellroy; and David Peace is Yorkshire's. While some writers suffer from the comparison, Peace does not.His series of novels set in and around Leeds at the time of the Yorkshire Ripper murders is in my view the finest modern British series in crime fiction. Dark, desperate, highly stylised, moving, they engage with modern Britain - drawing on a number of topical themes: abuse; corruption; conspiracy. This the final novel in the quartet revisits many of the threads initiated in 1974, but are presented in such a way that knowledge of the previous novels is not necessary. The three principals here: BJ, a rent boy, Piggot, a corrupt solicitor, and Jobson, a corrupt policeman, are set in three different interlinking narratives. In demonstrating how his style has developed since his earlier work, here various devices are used effortlessly. Piggot's chapters are written in the second person, BJ refers to himself continually in the third person. The device differentiates the narrative threads, but also serves to demonstrate the distancing each character has from their story. The characters are all too human, complex people with complex motivations. Violence is presented explictly, the consequences of actions explored (throughout the whole of the twenty five year span covered by the novel). The subject matter - violent child murders and abuse - may be too much for some. The writing style may be too much for others. BUt make no mistake, David Peace is the most exciting and most important thing that has happened to crime fiction in the UK in a very long time.
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