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by David Peace (Author) "Leeds. Sunday 29 May 1977. It's happening again: When the two sevens clash.. ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Serpent's Tail; New edition edition (12 Jul 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1852427442
  • ISBN-13: 978-1852427443
  • Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 13 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 199,998 in Books (See Bestsellers 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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Second in the "Red Riding Quartet", this tale is set in Jubilee year. Its heroes, the half-decent copper Bof Fraser and the burnt-out hack Jack Whitehead are the only two who suspect that there is more than one killer at large among the Chapeltown whores.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Sensational Sequel, 5 Sep 2000
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This review is from: Nineteen Seventy Seven: Red Riding Quartet (Paperback)
Nineteen Seventy Seven is the second in Peace's Yorkshire Quartet; four books that chronicle the secret history of Yorkshire from the Seventies to the Eighties. I'm a big fan of the first book, Nineteen Seventy Four and this sequel is even better. Set against the background of the Silver Jubilee, foul weather, punk and reggae sounds, this is the harrowing but engrossing tale of a journalist and a policeman who are sucked into the devastating spiral of despair caused by the crimes of the Yorkshire Ripper. The prose and plotting are simply superb, the former verging on a kind of brutal but beautiful poetry. Quite simply Nineteen Seventy Seven is the best novel of any genre I've read since his last book. Bring on the next!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Northern noir for those who like their meat very rare, 1 Oct 2000
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This review is from: Nineteen Seventy Seven: Red Riding Quartet (Paperback)
West Yorkshire. Silver Jubilee. Yorkshire Ripper. A bent copper. Drunken journalist. Whore lovers. Corruption. Mutilation. HATE. HATE.

Not an easy read, and not a comfortable one, but an absolutely compulsive, rivetting psychological/procedural noir novel with a rock-solid grasp of location. Everyone else says it so I suppose I'll have to - Peace writes in a style similar to James Ellroy (the parts of the book narrated by Bob Fraser remind me in particular of Ellroy's Dave Klein in "White Jazz") and covers similar subject matter; but Peace has a distinct voice and a different agenda to Ellroy.

A superb and chilling novel. Unmissable.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A waking nightmare..., 26 Jan 2009
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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...
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3.0 out of 5 stars Not for the faint hearted casual reader
Glad I read other reviews after reading 1977 because I was about to start re reading it immediately , thinking I'd failed to grasp why the ending was like " eh what ...? Read more
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3.0 out of 5 stars Second in the series
The second part of the Red Riding Quartet is set three years later than the first. As Yorkshire is gripped by the Ripper killings, police officer Bob Fraser and crime reporter... Read more
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2.0 out of 5 stars poor
As a fan of James Ellroy and a resident in Yorkshire I have just finished 1974 and 1977. They are very average. Read more
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Having now read all four books after having watched the series on TV, I feel cheated and conned.
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I bought all four of these books and the first one was so hard to read full of the F and C words used needlessly. Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars Life on Mars/ Ashes to Ashes meets James Ellroy
This is the second in the 'Red Riding Quartet'- and hard hitting it certainly is!.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Ultimately disappointing
As they would probably say in Yorkshire, "what the bloody hell was all that about?" Having now read two of this author's books, I feel I have sussed his technique which is to use... Read more
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