Gb84

Never before published in the U.S., "GB84" will be launched in 2014 alongside two other novels by David Peace: "The Damned Utd" and "Red or Dead"
In taut and gripping prose that often feels like the relentless text of a surveillance report, "GB84" tells the story of the British coal miner's stri [...]
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Never before published in the U.S., "GB84" will be launched in 2014 alongside two other novels by David Peace: "The Damned Utd" and "Red or Dead"
In taut and gripping prose that often feels like the relentless text of a surveillance report, "GB84" tells the story of the British coal miner's strike of 1984--including the actual bombings, riots and protests that brought the country to the brink of civil war.
Called by its author "fiction based on fact," the book depicts a real-life 1984 more violently dystopian than even Orwell imagined. Slowly starving strikers find themselves pitted against a prime minister--Margaret Thatcher--determined to crush them . . . a police force willing to use infiltration and violence to achieve her will . . . and equally hungry scabs who need a job . . .
Mixing real events and characters with the voices of the increasingly desperate strikers, the book becomes a stirring saga of courage against overwhelmingly sinister forces, and paints a searing and haunting portrait of events that changed the course of British history.