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Laddar... Nineteen Seventy Seven (urspr publ 2000; utgåvan 2001)av David Peace
Verkdetaljer1977 : andra boken i Yorkshire-kvartetten av David Peace (2000)
   Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. part 2   stevholt | Nov 19, 2017 |  This was a DNF. Much as I like David Peace, I can't help but agree with the decision to skip this one when the Red Riding quartet was adapted for television. This was much too sordid and grimy-feeling, and confusing to boot. The dual narrators originally alternated, and I was able to tell who it was based on the number of the chapter, but then I think they switched toward the end and confused me even further. It also didn't help that I went on vacation and didn't take it with me, so by the time I came back, I'd lost the impetus to keep going. I peeked at the end to get some of the loose threads tied up, but even then I'm not sure I got the whole story. Ah well. Thanks anyway, interlibrary loan. I appreciate the opportunity to have tried this. (  ) rabbitprincess | Jul 2, 2015 | Jack Whitehead is a seasoned journalist haunted by the spectre of a murdered woman. Bob Fraser is a cop married to the daughter of a legendary officer, with a bright future and a clean reputation. He is also involved in an obsessive relationship with a prostitute which may not be entirely consensual. In the flawed and dirty world of the villages and towns near Leeds, in Yorkshire, in Nineteen Seventy-Seven, they are the good guys. A violent sexual murderer, called the Yorkshire Ripper, is hunting down the prostitutes of the region, but there are questions about whether all the dead women were killed by the Ripper and about possible police involvement. The second installment in David Peace's Red Riding Quartet is as violent and relentless as the first. This is Noir in its very darkest and bleakest incarnation. The Yorkshire of Peace's imagination is devoid of hope or even basic human decency, where Blacks and Gypsies are the targets of police brutality as a matter of course and where women are victimized with callous disregard. Whitehead and Fraser have reasons for pursuing their search for the killer, but they have their own demons to fight, which might just prove more formidable than the corrupt and venal system they operate within. One needs a strong stomach to read this series, but they are compelling; the violence is graphic but it never feels gratuitous. After reading the first book in the series, Nineteen Seventy-Four, I rushed right out to get a copy of [Nineteen Seventy-Seven], which I then eyed distrustfully for several months before reading. I'll be doing the same with Nineteen Eighty. (  ) RidgewayGirl | Aug 13, 2014 | I'll put the same review on all four of them: Nineteen Seventy-Four Nineteen Seventy-Seven Nineteen Eighty Nineteen Eighty Three I read them as a challenge - based on camaraderie with coworkers. Once I started the series, didn't especially want to wimp out, and then was compelled to read thru to the last book to see if I could possibly figure out what the "ending" was. I'm not faulting the author - it was a unique and compelling writing style and twisted plot with characters jumping back and forth between books. I did it. I read them all. I think they got weirder and more difficult as they went along, but if you're looking for some intense, darkly challenging books - have at it. Read in 2011. ( ) CasaBooks | Apr 28, 2013 | Brilliant novel set around the Yorkshire Ripper murders. Very dark, very bleak. Can't wait to read Nineteen Eighty, but at the same time would quite like to read something jolly and lighthearted... ( ) Marie-Clare | Aug 15, 2011 | inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
Leeds. Söndagen den 29 maj 1977. Det händer igenDet är försommar, och hela stan är förväntansfull inför silverjubileet av drottning Elisabeths regeringstid. Men kriminalinspektör Bob Fraser och Jack Whitehead, som är reporter på The Post, har annat att tänka på. Någon rör sig på stadens gator, någon som dödar och lemlästar prostituerade kvinnor. Mördaren får snabbt smeknamnet »Yorkshire Ripper«, och både Fraser och Whitehead arbetar oförtröttligt - var och en på sitt håll - med att försöka få tag på honom.Efterforskningarna kompliceras samtidigt av att de bägge männen själva är involverade i förhållanden med prostituerade.I takt med att sommaren fortskrider accelererar antalet mord - och Fraser och Whitehead misstänker att mer än en mördare kan vara i farten.DAVID PEACE [f. 1967] växte upp i Yorkshire på sjuttiotalet. 1977 är den andra boken i den kvartett kriminalromaner som fått det samlande namnet »Yorkshire-kvartetten« [»Red Riding Quartet«].»David Peace romaner är starka, obehagliga skildringar av samhällets skuggsidor, berättade med ett driv och en stilistisk elegans som slår det mesta i deckargenren. 1977, den andra delen i den lysande Yorkshire-kvartetten, stannar kvar länge i läsaren.« YUKIKO DUKE, TIDNINGEN VISvenska pressröster om »1974«, den första boken i Yorkshire-kvartetten:»David Peace skriver hårdkokt och rasande, med svärtan hos en igenbommad gruva. Så snart jag hämtat andan är jag redo att dyka ner i 1977, nästa installation i en kvartett som fått en kraftfull, infernaliskt gnistrande start.« SAM SUNDBERG, SVENSKA DAGBLADET»Den märkligaste, mest personliga och bästa nya deckarförfattaren från England.« BENGT ERIKSSON, KRISTIANSTADSBLADET»Flera gånger när jag läser 1974 så tänker jag: Bra, bra, bra! Skit och guld blandas, hopp och hopplöshet avlöser varandra. Jag slungas fram och tillbaka, jag hänger på - och längtar. Mer, mer, mer!« STIG HANSÉN, HELSINGBORGS DAGBLAD [Elib] Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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