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Nineteen Eighty: Red Riding Quartet (Paperback)

by David Peace (Author) "I'm awake, sweating and afraid ..." (more)
4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)

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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: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 505,334 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 out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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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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13 of 14 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 5 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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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars It's oh so dark, 21 Jan 2004
By Anthony Peckham "meantime_tony" (Leatherhead, UK) - See all my reviews
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There are those authors who strive to scare with writing vicious gore packed novels... However, David Peace has written a masterpiece here, the cloak of a real life horror story shrouding this book with out even trying. A fictional tale surrounding the hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper, Peace's unique style of writing gives this an edge that only a few dare to replicate. 1980 is a crime classic, and an unputdownable but uncomfortable read. To sum up - Think the film 'seven' set in Yorkshire!
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5.0 out of 5 stars A remarkable and violent novel
The third volume in David Peace's quartet moves forward to 1980 and focuses on the character of Peter Hunter, the senior police officer investigating the actions of the police... Read more
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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 1 month 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 2 months ago by Dr. Peter G. Upton

3.0 out of 5 stars Mixed Views
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. Read more
Published 2 months ago by John Moyes

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 4 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
Published 7 months ago by Riviere Jean Luc

5.0 out of 5 stars superb
unfortunately, due to my impatience with hackney libraries' reservation service, i read the quartet in the wrong order, skipping out '77 and eventually reading it after the rest... Read more
Published 11 months ago by lexicon rose

5.0 out of 5 stars Its all becoming a bit clearer.....
Ok, so where am I so far? Read the previous two. Loved 74, but nearly gave up on 77...seemed to be going nowhere. Read more
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