{"product_id":"gb84-book-david-peace-9781612193939","title":"GB84","description":"\u003cb\u003eNever before published in the U.S., \u003ci\u003eGB84\u003c\/i\u003e will be launched in 2014 alongside two other novels by David Peace: \u003ci\u003eThe Damned Utd\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRed or Dead\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn taut and gripping prose that often feels like the relentless text of a surveillance report, \u003ci\u003eGB84\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of the British coal miner's strike of 1984--including the actual bombings, riots and protests that brought the country to the brink of civil war. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCalled by its author fiction based on fact, the book depicts a real-life 1984 more violently dystopian than even Orwell imagined. Slowly starving strikers find themselves pitted against a prime minister--Margaret Thatcher--determined to crush them . . . a police force willing to use infiltration and violence to achieve her will . . . and equally hungry scabs who need a job . . . \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMixing real events and characters with the voices of the increasingly desperate strikers, the book becomes a stirring saga of courage against overwhelmingly sinister forces, and paints a searing and haunting portrait of events that changed the course of British history.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50059015946513,"sku":"CIN1612193935G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1612193935.jpg?v=1750960488","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/de-ch\/products\/gb84-buch-david-peace-9781612193939","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}