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Nineteen Eighty: Red Riding Quartet (Paperback)

by David Peace (Author) "I'm awake, sweating and afraid ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 386 pages
  • Publisher: Serpent's Tail (12 Jul 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1852426942
  • ISBN-13: 978-1852426941
  • Product Dimensions: 21 x 13.4 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 116,657 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'A compelling and devastating body of work that pushes Peace to the forefront of British writing' Time Out; 'Peace has found his own voice - full of dazzling, intense poetry and visceral violence' Uncut; 'With a human landscape that is violent and unrelentingly bleak, Peace's fiction is two or three shades the other side of noir' New Statesman --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.


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Third in the "Red Riding Quartet", this tale is set in 1980, when the Yorkshire Ripper murders his 13th victim. Assistant Chief Constable Hunter is drawn into a world of corruption and sleaze. When his house is burned down and his wife threatened, his quest becomes personal.
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15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Best yet from Master Peace!, 15 Oct 2001
Peace's Red Riding Quartet is rapidly turning from The British Crime Series into the best British Quartet ever, regardless of genre. I have never read anything quite like it. Each book is different from the last and they just get better and better. Nineteen Seventy Four was full on,in yer face Ultra Noir, Seventy Seven was like Dickens imagining Ellroy in an opium dream. And Eighty, well you just want to read the first so-called Transmission. From the British Ellroy to the New Dante in two books. This man is our best writer, period. Read him.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Another superb episode of Peace's "Red Riding" quartet, 26 Oct 2002
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David Peace's hallucinatory, horrific Yorkshire crime novels become darker and deeper by the volume. His psychological landscape is dominated by the Yorkshire Ripper, who terrorised the North of England through the late seventies and early eighties; Peace shows the police hunting him to be only half a step less psychologically damaged than the man they're trying to find.

Uncomfortable, disturbing, chilling reading, in a fragmented, fractured style. Hieronymous Bosch meets James Ellroy somewhere off the M62. Memorable and terrifying.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Mixed Views, 19 April 2009
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First, don't expect an easy read. There is, of course a lot of continuous narrative, but a lot of the effect is obtained by disjunction. I found a lot of that contrived and it is derivative not original. Second, the main plot (the Sutcliffe murders lightly disguised mainly by using different names) has a known outcome, but that is by no means an unusual device, nor is it here ineffective here, but it is the sub-plots and the characterisations that make the books worthwhile. The tension is well maintained and there are some neat touches: juxtapositions of 'Sutcliffe's' thoughts with the main narrative, Molly Bloom like soliloquy (though that did irritate me a bit since David Peace is no James Joyce). But I have to say that a lot of the writing struck me as obfuscation in the guise of literary depth and it just didn't come off. Overall worth reading, but I thought it didn't live up to the hype. There is another irritation - the typefaces are a mess. They are set that way deliberately (I think!) to signal different types of pace and atmosphere, but it did not work at all for me.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The pace roars ahead
The third book of the Quartet is arguably the strongest yet - the pace picks up as the plot pieces from the previous book begins to slump into place. Read more
Published 19 days ago by F. Wight

5.0 out of 5 stars Perhaps not every copper in the force is bent?
The third in Peace's series of dark and dirty police thrillers, set in West Yorkshire and definitely the best so far. Read more
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You could write volumes about this extraordinary quartet. My guess is that you will either love it or hate it. I was totally engrossed from start to finish. Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars Riveting
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If you like a gritty cynical page turner with gratuitous sex and violence then this book is for you

Published 4 months ago by James Wood

5.0 out of 5 stars A remarkable and violent novel
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Published 5 months ago by DDH255

5.0 out of 5 stars Red Riding Quartet
All four books in the quartet were fantastic reads. Not everyone's style of the written word, but I couldn't put any of them down. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Mrs. Michele Platman

3.0 out of 5 stars High on atmosphere low on credibility
Neither the book nor the DVD really have much to add to the history of the Ripper enquiry; the rather mannered narration is hard going at times and has a touch of the creative... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Dr. Peter G. Upton

5.0 out of 5 stars Riveting Read
I'm new to Peace's writing and started with The Damned United which is a great book whether you are a football fan or not. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Barca 82

1.0 out of 5 stars Full of leftist clichés
Boring, written in a modernistic (or what the author think is modernisti style) and full of leftist clichés. Each of Mr Peace's new book is worse than the one before. Read more
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