- Paperback: 352 pages
- Publisher: Serpent's Tail; New edition edition (12 July 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1852427442
- ISBN-13: 978-1852427443
- Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 13 x 2.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 456,412 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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John Simm (Life on Mars) in Word Magazine, March 2006
'Powerful, intense, gritty’
‘Peace’s writing style is incredible, he has a brilliant, unique voice’
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If you thought fiction couldn't get darker than David Peace's extraordinary debut, Nineteen Seventy Four, then think again. Nineteen Seventy Seven, the second instalment of the ?Red Riding Quartet?, is one long noir nightmare. Its heroes - the half decent copper Bof 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 whores. 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. Like James Ellroy before him, David Peace tells us the true and fearsome secret history of our times.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A waking nightmare...,
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This review is from: Red Riding Nineteen Seventy Seven: Red Riding Quartet (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...
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Life on Mars/ Ashes to Ashes meets James Ellroy,
By Mark P (Aberdeen) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Red Riding Nineteen Seventy Seven (Red Riding Quartet) (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!!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Remarkable,
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This review is from: Red Riding Nineteen Seventy Seven: Red Riding Quartet (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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