----- Original Message ----- From: Mark Sullivan <
DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net> To: <
rara-avis@icomm.ca> Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 2:06
AM Subject: RARA-AVIS: David Peace/Nineteen Seventy
Four
> I ran across the above book today in a used
bookstore
> The back jacket copy reads:
>
> In Nineteen Seventy Four, David Peace brings the
passion and stylistic
> bravado of a James Ellroy novel to this terrifyingly
intense journey
> into a secret history of sexual obsession, greed and
sadism -- the
> finest British crime debut since Derek Raymond's He
Dies With His Eyes
> Open.
>
> Now that is high praise, even if it does mistakenly
call Raymond's book
> a debut (under that name, sure, but he'd written
many as Robin Cook).
> However it's ad copy, not even a credited blurb. So,
how is the book
> really? Anyone know?
>
> Mark
For my money 1974 is extraordinarily good (the follow-up,
1977, is even better - the best Britihsh hardboiled novel
I've ever read, probably the best British novel of any sort
of the last decade).
BTW I suppose He Died With His Eyes Open was Robin Cook's
first crime novel
John
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