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Nineteen Seventy Seven: Red Riding Quartet (Unabridged)
 
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by David Peace (Author), Saul Reichlin (Narrator)
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  • Listening Length: 10 hours and 26 minutes
  • Program Type: Audiobook
  • Version: Unabridged
  • Publisher: Audible Ltd
  • Audible Release Date: 6 July 2010
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B003V0O6DS
  • Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)

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*Please note this audiobook contains explicit language.

If you thought fiction couldn't get darker then think again. Nineteen Seventy Seven, the second instalment of the Red Riding Quartet, is one long nightmare.

Its heroes - the half decent copper Bob Fraser and the burnt-out hack Jack Whitehead - would be considered villains in most people's books. Fraser and Whitehead have one thing in common though; they're both desperate men dangerously in love with Chapeltown prostitutes.

And as the summer moves remorselessly towards the bonfires of Jubilee Night, the killings accelerate and it seems as if Fraser and Whitehead are the only men who suspect or care that there may be more than one killer at large.

Out of the horror of true crime, David Peace has fashioned a work of terrible beauty. David Peace (born 1967) is an English author.

He was named one of the Best of Young British Novelists by Granta in 2003 and won the 2004 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. Also known for his novels GB84 and The Damned United, the latter was made into a feature film starring Michael Sheen.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
A waking nightmare... 26 Jan 2009
By avl06 VINE™ VOICE
Format:Paperback
This is a crime novel, but like no other; Peace has turned up his nihilistic poetry for this second in the quartet to such a level that it reads more like a waking dream, or nightmare. Two parallel investigations circle around the Yorkshire Ripper, and corruption in the Police, but there is no closure, and I don't think we are expected to understand what has been going on. The ending is truer to the sense of nightmare than the investigation. Its compelling but my guess is the thing will only make sense when you read the final book...
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Remarkable 19 Dec 2009
By Twig
Format:Paperback
Yes, it's repetitive, with paragraphs cut and pasted and sentences breaking down, word by word. Yes, it's disjointed; two lead characters' voices - one more than 1974 and 1980, one less than 1983. Yes, motives can be ambiguous, plotline uncertain, threads left dangling - and yet, and yet, and yet...

I loved this series of books more than just about anything I've read this year, certainly anything by a British author. It's a fast and compulsive read, with the author dragging the reader through mutated news events from my youth - fictionalized versions of Stefan Kiszko, John Stalker, Peter Sutcliffe - with a visceral brutality that shocks and enthrals.

The unusual repetitive style is mesmerizing, and a successful way of getting inside the protagonists' heads. The two protagonists, police officer, Bob Fraser and crime reporter,Jack Whitehead, have perspectives on the unfolding story that are equally rivetting. As for the motives, plotline, dangling threads... For me, it made it feel so genuine, as inconvenient and messy as life itself.

All four books in the Red Riding series are remarkable, and taken together form a whole that's better than the sum of its parts. That said, I would hesitate to recommend the books to anyone whose taste I didn't know, simply because they are so idiosyncratic. I can see that some readers could be completely alienated by the style and the substance. All I can repeat is that I absolutely loved them, all four; five-star novels, the lot of them.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
By Mark P
Format:Paperback
This is the second in the 'Red Riding Quartet'- and hard hitting it certainly is!.
I have taken off one star because at times, I found the book a little hard going, but nevertheless would recommend it!.

The bleakness of the late 70's, just pre- Thatcher era , comes through very well and is written in Peace's short crisp , sometimes one word sentences. He captures the period very well with pop culture references peppered throughout. Stylistically the writing brings to mind obvious James Ellroy comparisons , maybe overseen by the ghost of Derek Raymond !.

Surely Philip Glenister could play a part in a TV adaptation!!
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
Emperor's new clothes.....don't fall for the trendy uncritical hype
Let me start by saying I have enjoyed David Peace's previous books.
The Damned United was searingly brilliant and 1974 , the first book in this series was grim but ultimately... Read more
Published 23 days ago by Mickey G
Brutal
Is this book meant to have chapters 13 -15 printed twice? Mine did.
Loved it though, ripping it right up.
Published 1 month ago by Vincep
As bad decisions go......
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... Read more
Published 16 months ago by M. J. Nash
Heavy Heavy Heavy
There is some heavy stuff in here, as there was in 1974. Definitely worth reading if you like extremely gritty British crime drama. Its bordering on a 5 star book. Read more
Published 20 months ago by brentdavids
Literary pugilism!
David Peace's depiction of life in 70's Yorkshire brilliantly creates a dark and intimidating atmosphere that is very apt considering the background tale of the Yorkshire ripper... Read more
Published 23 months ago by Bp Mcnamara
Gritty
"1977" is a fairly harrowing and frequently confusing novel centred around the infamous "Yorkshire Ripper" killings of the late 1970's. Read more
Published on 4 April 2010 by L. Davidson
Imagination
The second instalment of Peace's Red Riding Quartet, the central themes of dark violence, vice and corruption continue. Read more
Published on 1 April 2010 by bloo_toon_red
Not NOT nice at ALL
I like David Peace. I'm a big fan of "The Damned United" and I've read all of the Red Riding Quartet, of which this is the second book. Read more
Published on 20 Oct 2009 by Philip Turton
Bleak
I purchased the four novels of the Red Riding quartet in anticipation of the TV adaptations. Unfortunately, they are unremittingly bleak full of depressing locations and morally... Read more
Published on 16 Sep 2009 by R. Morrison
Peace finds his hold in the second in the Bloody Red Riding Quartet
The first book I must admit nearly completly put me off the series. I was left feeling let down at what I felt was a weak plot held up only by a strong main character and some... Read more
Published on 4 Sep 2009 by F. Wight
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