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 Nineteen Eighty Three - David Peace
 Nineteen Eighty Three - David Peace ... 2004-03-04 by Serpent's TailNewest Review: ... Jobson is a senior policeman. The novel portrays Yorkshire and England in the eighties as a horribly dirty, morally corrupt, ... more ... the place is full of horrible working class poor with loose attitudes on sex, drink, and drugs. Would it be fair to say that this is a reasonable representation of Yorkshire of the time, maybe but it makes for very hard reading. The style of writing also makes for a book which is a challenge to read, I've been thinking about the novel since I read it and I've come to the conclusion that the novel is either written by a genius or a person with serious mental health issues.
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Nineteen Eighty Three - David Peace: A strange and weird crime novel, its a challenging read (546 words)
by - written on 18/09/09 (Very useful, 36 readings)
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1983 is the final part of the Red Riding quartet of novels set in Yorkshire, they echo the Yorkshire Ripper years and feature police brutality and corruption. This book brings together the disparate themes found in the three previous novels 1974, 1977, 1980, all feature rent boys, corrupt cops and dodgy lawyers. They are set in the Yorkshire area. Thats the basic facts of the novel but what a weird and wonderful novel this is, to say its a trial to read would be an understatment. There are three main characters and each chapter is a first person perspective over the events depicted. The three characters are bj, a rent boy, John Piggott a lawyer and Maurice ... Read the complete review
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