David Peace
1) 1983
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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 común en la novela negra,...
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The first installment of David Peace's electrifying Red Riding Quartet vividly brings to life a gritty, dangerous working class city tormented by a series of brutal murders. Nineteen Seventy-Four follows Eddie Dunford, the newly minted crime correspondent for the Yorkshire Post. His first story is about Clare Kemplay, a young girl recently found brutally murdered. While the police department and other crime reporters at the newspaper...
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Haunting and evocative, brutal and surreal, these twelve connected tales evoke the life of the Japanese writer Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927), whose short story "In the Grove" served as an inspiration for Akira Kurosawa's famous film Rashōmon, and whose narrative use of multiple perspectives and different versions of a single event influenced generations of storytellers. Writing out of his own obsession with Akutagawa, David Peace delves into...
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In 1958, Manchester United was flying high: the best-known soccer team in the world and reigning English champions, the team was led by a bright young group of star players nicknamed the "Busby Babes" after their charismatic manager Matt Busby. But on a snowy afternoon that February, a plane carrying the team back from a European Cup match crashed on takeoff in Munich, killing 23 people--including eight Manchester United players and three team officials....