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Red Riding Nineteen Seventy Four David Peace

Red Riding Nineteen Seventy Four By David Peace

Red Riding Nineteen Seventy Four by David Peace


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Summary

This is the first part of the Red Riding Quartet. It's winter, 1974, and Ed Dunford's the crime correspondent of the Evening Post. He didn't know that this Christmas was going to be a season in hell. A dead little girl with a swan's wings stitched to her back.

Red Riding Nineteen Seventy Four Summary

Red Riding Nineteen Seventy Four 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.

Red Riding Nineteen Seventy Four Reviews

?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 *

About David Peace

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.

Additional information

GOR001324406
9781852427412
1852427418
Red Riding Nineteen Seventy Four by David Peace
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Profile Books Ltd
20001012
304
N/A
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