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D AV I D P E A C E an interview with D AV I D PEACE Conducted by Matthew Hart orn in Ossett, West Yorkshire, in 1967, the English novelist David Peace lives and writes in Tokyo. Peace first drew attention as the author of the Red Riding Quartet, a sequence of novels loosely based on the police investigation of Peter Sutcliffe, the serial rapist and murderer known as the Yorkshire Ripper. The quartet, which was published in Britain and the United States by the independent imprint Serpent's Tail, began with Nineteen Seventy Four (1999), continued with Nineteen Seventy Seven (2000) and Nineteen Eighty (2001), and came to its shocking and disillusioned conclusion with Nineteen Eighty Three (2002). As the titles suggest, each book is rooted in a particular year of a period that included industrial unrest throughout the United Kingdom, something tantamount to civil war in Northern Ireland, the looming threat of neo-fascist thuggery, a Scottish devolution campaign, punk rock, recession, the Falklands War, and the gradual emergence of New Right conservatism as a political way of life. The Yorkshire plotlines of each novel, which cross and recross throughout the series, are thus played out against
Contemporary Literature – University of Wisconsin Press
Published: Feb 16, 2006
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