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Stylish, riveting and appalling, GB84 is a shocking fictional documentation of the violence, sleaze and fraudulence that characterised Thatcher's Britain.
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.
In his trademark visceral prose, Peace describes the insidious workings of the boardroom negotiations and the increasingly anarchic coalfield battles; the struggle for influence in government and the dwindling powers of the NUM; and the corruption, intrigue and dirty tricks which run through the whole like a fault in a seam of coal.
David Peace has written a novel extraordinary in its reach, and unflinching in its capacity to recreate the brutality and passion that changed the course of British history in the late twentieth century.
'A genuine British original.' Guardian
'Peace is a writer of such immense talent and power . . . If Northern noir is the crime fashion of the moment, Peace is its most brilliant designer.' The Times
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About the Author
David Peace was born in Yorkshire. He is the author of the Red Riding Quartet (Nineteen Seventy Four, Nineteen Seventy Seven, Nineteen Eighty and Nineteen Eighty Three), which was adapted into a Channel 4 series; Tokyo Year Zero and Occupied City, the first two parts of his Tokyo Trilogy; GB84, which was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Award; The Damned Utd, made into a film starring Michael Sheen; and Red or Dead, a novel about Bill Shankly.
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“It’s history as noir in the style of James Ellroy, political and compelling."
—Brooklyn Magazine, Eight Books to Read in November
“Peace is known more for his Red Riding Quartet, but, to my mind, this retronymic dystopia is his best book. Originally released in 2004 — twenty years, obviously, after 1984 — and set in Thatcherite England, the novel is an epic political hothouse and construction of genius that is, if anything, grossly underrated."
—Flavorwire, 50 Best Independent Fiction and Poetry Books of 2014
“This is a big book about one of the most important struggles in British history... As a novelistic rendering of history, GB84 is first rate."
—Barnes & Noble Review
“A behemoth of British fiction."
—Flavorwire, Must-Reads for November 2014
“A curious, intense, formally innovative thriller from the Herman Melville of soccer fiction."
—WORD Bookstores, Books of the Week, on Largehearted Boy
“Profoundly moving."
—Bookslut
“Haunting, seminal, bleak, iconic, furied... It’s a necessary novel, vital even.”
—The Observer
“A conspiracy thriller laced with apocalyptic poetry.”
—The Independent
“The writing is clever, terse, incisive... This mammoth conspiracy tale is a thriller daubed with horror.”
—The Scotsman
“Superb... [Peace] has turned the whole episode into a gripping thriller, with no detriment to documentary realis... GB84 is a bold mixture of thriller, monologue, theatre script, chants, slogans, crime story, sexual subplot and documentary fiction... This is an epic novel...a crowded, ambitious, quick-moving novel, and as such is the literary equal of the epic events it commemorates.”
—The Guardian
“A violently original novel.”
—The Times
“Exhilarating... Compelling.”
—Times Literary Supplement
“The book is so compelling... Peace’s terse, urgent sentences are perfectly suited to depicting a large-scale confrontation. The tactics and resources of both sides, their histories, their mindsets, the likely battlefields—all are vividly laid out in little more than a few paragraphs. Alliteration and repetition establish a marching rhythm like massing pickets or policemen... Only a rare political novel manages that.”
—London Review of Books
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- PublisherFaber & Faber
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 0571314872
- ISBN 13 9780571314874
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages480
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