David Peace (Author)

Broschiertes Buch

GB84

The classic novel about the miners' strike

Beschreibung

Great Britain. 1984. The miners' strike. It is the closest Britain has come to civil war in fifty years, setting the government against the people. This book presents a fictional documentation of the violence, sleaze and fraudulence that characterised Thatcher's Britain.

Autor

David Peace - named in 2003 as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists - was born and brought up in Yorkshire. He is the author of eleven novels including the Red Riding Quartet, adapted for television by Channel Four in 2009, GB84, which was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, The Damned Utd, Red or Dead, which was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize in 2013, and most recently Tokyo Redux. He lives in Tokyo.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Faber & Faber, London
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 128mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 366g
• ISBN-13: 9780571314874
• ISBN-10: 0571314872
• Artikelnr.: 40497804

Rezensionen

On one level GB84 works as a historically precise, week-by-week account of the strike. But it is also a conspiracy thriller laced with apocalyptic poetry. Its power lies in it mixture of documentary realism and enigmatic fantasy, its exploration of the intimate betrayals that constitute an epic social tragedy. Independant