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    1983

    By David Peace

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    «Ésta es la última entrega y es magnífica… David Peace se ha convertido en uno de los más originales y absorbentes autores de novela negra del mundo», Yorkshire Post

    «El ritmo es frenético, la violencia estomagante, el estilo extra-stacatto, y la moraleja triste y desoladora, pero la voz de Peace es poderosa y única. Un material fascinante que no dejará indiferente a nadie», The Guardian

    1983: Margaret Thatcher está a punto de ser reelegida por segunda vez y en Morley, West Yorkshire, acaba de desaparecer una niña. La víctima iba al mismo colegio que Clare Kemplay, la niña asesinada en 1974, la primera novela del ciclo Red Riding. «Esto nunca termina», dicen las madres. En 1983 David Peace pone fin a una tetralogía que narra hipnóticamente, con aspereza y profundidad, mucho más allá de lo que es regla en la novela negra, una pesadilla interminable. Un abogado intenta recurrir la sentencia que condenó a un falso culpable por la muerte de Clare Kemplay. Un poli corrupto desentierra viejas heridas en busca de una imposible redención. Y un joven que ha pasado toda su vida al margen de la ley decide tomarse la justicia por su mano. 1983 retoma los personajes y tramas de las anteriores novelas del cuarteto y resuelve sus misterios y sórdidos secretos. Al final no quedarán cabos sueltos, tal vez porque, como dice uno de los protagonistas, los cabos sueltos sueltos deben morir.

    LanguageEspañol
    PublisherAlba Editorial
    Release dateJun 24, 2012
    ISBN9788484287087
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    1983
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    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.

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    • 1/5
      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.
    • 5/5
      These books (1974, 1977, 1980, 1nd 1983) collectively constitute The Red Riding Hood Quartet, a series of crime novels based on the Yorkshire Ripper murders. I had read the first in the series, Nineteen Seventy-four last year, and thought it would be a simple matter to pick up with Nineteen Seventy-seven (which BTW is on the 1001 list) and proceed. However, I soon determined that I needed to reread Nineteen Seventy-four, which I did, and when I finished Nineteen Seventy-seven, I had to immediately go onto Nineteen Eighty and then Nineteen Eighty-three. I can't remember when I've read so many books by the same author in such a concentrated amount of time. (I devoured these over several days). In my view, these four books can only be read as one novel.The first book in the series is narrated by a novice crime reporter, and concerned the solving of a series of child murders, some of which occurred several years before 1974, when the book is set. It is grim and bleak, and about terrible people doing terrible things. In this book, we are introduced to some of the corrupt policemen who are the core of this series.Nineteen Seventy-seven is narrated by Jack Whitehead, a senior crime reporter who had made an appearance in the first book as the arrogant, wisecracking rival of the narrator in the first book. Now that we are in his mind, we can see that he is a psychological wreck, with self-induced demons haunting him.Whitehead's sections alternate with sections narrated by Bobby Fraser, a policeman who made a brief but important appearance in the first book. In that book, he was a rookie, and was ethical with a sense of fair play. Three years later, he is unrecognizable--corrupt and violent.In Nineteen Seventy-seven the Ripper murders begin, but are not solved. As in Nineteen Seventy-four, the narrative flows freely back and forth in time, and is for the most part in stream of consciousness. It is again a novel without a hero, full of terrible people.In Nineteen Eighty the murders continue, and we meet the first character we can like. Peter Hunter, an investigator from another district, is sent to review the Ripper investigation to determine whether the failure to solve the case is due to incompetence, or to some clue that has been overlooked. Again the narrative travels loosely back and forth in time, and more and more of the rampant police corruption becomes known to the reader.Each of these first three novels ends with a huge bang, although we sometimes are not entirely sure what actually happened. It is not until the ensuing book that we are entirely aware of what happened, and the ramifications it has for the characters and the investigation.Nineteen Eight-three is narrated from the pov of three characters. John Piggot, a sleazy solicitor who is trying to prove that the man convicted of the child murders in the first book was framed, narrates his sections in the first person. BJ, a "rent boy" who has made appearances in the first three novels, narrates his sections, referring to himself in the second person. The final sections are told from the point of view of a corrupt police official.Nineteen Eight-three winds and unwinds, not unlike a symphonic exposition, all the threads begun in the first novel. It shifts back and forth in time over nearly twenty years. As in the first three novels, it also ends with a bang, and again we are not quite sure of all of the ramifications. Unfortunately, there will be no succeeding books to enlighten us.These four novels are amazing. They are not, however, for everyone. There are obscenties on every page. Brutality and violence abound, sometimes graphicly described. Everyone is corrupt. The novels are bleak, gritty, cynical and despairing. If this description doesn't bother you, I highly recommend these books. Read as one, they are a masterpiece.
    • 4/5
      The final book in the Red Riding quartet. This time the three main characters are a solicitor, a rent boy and a corrupt police officer. The story, as with the other books, goes back and forth in time and answers many of the questions raised in the first book. It was sometimes hard to follow, but it was well worth the read. The quartet has to be read as one - there's no point starting one book and then going onto something else afterwards - the characters and actions are so complex you have to really put some time aside to work your way through everything. Having said that, they were absolutely worth the time taken.