Red Riding 1974 by David Peace
Jeanette Garland, missing Castleford, July 1969. Susan Ridyard, missing Rochdale, March 1972. Claire Kemplay, missing Morley, since yesterday. Christmas bombs and Lucky on the run, Leeds United and the Bay City Rollers, The Exorcist and It Ain?t Half Hot Mum. It?s winter ,1974, Yorkshire, and Ed Dunford?s got the job he wanted. Crime correspondent for the Evening Post. He didn?t know it was going to be a season in hell. A dead little girl with a swan?s wings stitched into her back. In Nineteen Seventy Four, David Peace brings the passion and stylistic bravado of an Ellroy novel to this terrifyingly intense journey into a secret history of sexual obession and greed.
?Breathless, extravagant, ultra-violent.. Vinnie Jones should buy the film rights fast? Independent on Sunday
Peace has found his own voice ? full of dazzling, intense poetry and visceral violence -- Uncut ?David Peace?s stunning debut has done for the county what Raymond Chandler and James Ellroy did for Los Angeles?This is a brilliant first novel * written with tremendous pace and passion? Yorkshire Post ?One hell of a read? Crime Time *
Peace has found his own voice ? full of dazzling, intense poetry and visceral violence -- Uncut ?David Peace?s stunning debut has done for the county what Raymond Chandler and James Ellroy did for Los Angeles?This is a brilliant first novel * written with tremendous pace and passion? Yorkshire Post ?One hell of a read? Crime Time *
David Peace grew up in Yorkshire in the '70's and vividly remembers listening to the hoax tape of the Yorkshire Ripper on his way home from school. He was selected as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists 2003. He lives in Japan.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781852427412 |
| ISBN 10 | 1852427418 |
| Titel | Red Riding 1974 |
| Autor | David Peace |
| Serie | The Red Riding Quartet |
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| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | Profile Books Ltd |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2000-10-12 |
| Seitenanzahl | 304 |
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