Goodreads Librarians Group discussion

There are errors to clean up with the book Nineteen Eighty Three.

1. All Editions: https://www.goodreads.com/work/editio...

- The Original Publication Date is incomplete. Archived version of the UK publisher website confirms it should be November 14, 2002: https://web.archive.org/web/200301051...

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2. Current US Edition: Nineteen Eighty-Three (ISBN 9780307455130)

- The publisher is incorrect. It should be Vintage Crime/Black Lizard.

- The page count is incorrect. WorldCat confirms 405: https://search.worldcat.org/title/419...

- “1” should be removed from the Editions field. This isn’t the first edition.

- The description is formatted incorrectly. It should read as follows, transcribed from the back cover:

In Nineteen Eighty-Three, David Peace brings his astonishing series of riveting, gritty crime novels to a shocking conclusion. With three separate narrators whose paths are on a collision course, Peace makes a dark study of perverted justice, retribution, and urban decay.

Maurice Jobson is a Yorkshire cop whose greed and corruption has rotted the police force to the core; BJ is a local street thug who finds he can no longer safely lurk in the shadows; and John Piggott, a lawyer, is as honest and forthright as they come. His investigation of a long-cold murder might just be the cure for Yorkshire’s woes, but he’ll need to get through it alive first.

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3. US Kindle: Nineteen Eighty-Three (ASIN B003BNEJT6)

- The publisher is missing. It should be Vintage Crime/Black Lizard.

- The publication date is missing. It should be March 10, 2010.

- The cover art is extremely small and has curved edges for some reason. Correct art here: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/4... // https://a.co/d/iZBOVlP

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4. US Ebook: Nineteen Eighty-Three (ISBN 9780307741677)

- The page count is missing. It should be 400.

- “From the trade paperback edition” needs to be removed from the description. The paperback and ebook have the same description.

- The cover art is extremely small and has curved edges for some reason. Correct art here: https://images4.penguinrandomhouse.co... // https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/bo...

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5. US Audible: 1983 (ASIN B00429KAZA)

- The title is incorrect. It should be Nineteen Eighty Three.

- Saul Reichlin needs to be added with the Narrator role.

- The page count is missing. It should be 16.

- The author bio paragraph needs to be removed from the description.

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6. 2002 UK Paperback: Nineteen Eighty-Three (ISBN 9781852426842)

- The page count is incorrect. I’m holding a copy and it stops at 405.

- The description is incorrect. It should read as follows, transcribed from the back cover:

With Nineteen Eighty Three David Peace completes his Red Riding Quartet, an astonishingly sustained epic of Yorkshire noir. Nineteen Eighty Three’s three intertwining storylines see the Quartet’s central themes of corruption and the perversion of justice come to a head: BJ the rent boy from Nineteen Seventy Four, the lawyer Big John Pigott, who’s as near as you get to a hero in Peace’s world, and Maurice Jobson, the senior cop whose career of corruption and brutality has set all this in motion, find themselves on a collision course that can only end in a terrible vengeance.

Nineteen Eighty Three is a fitting conclusion for one of the finest series in contemporary British crime writing.

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7. 2004 UK Paperback: Nineteen Eighty Three (ISBN 9781852427702)

- The publication date is incomplete. Archived version of the publisher website confirms it should be March 3, 2004: https://web.archive.org/web/200410270...

- The page count is incorrect. WorldCat confirms 405: https://search.worldcat.org/title/564...

- The description is incorrect. It should be the same as #6.

- The cover art appears to be a scan or photo of a copy of the book, and the colors are dull and the picture is askew. Higher quality art here: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/7... // https://amzn.eu/d/2G9mTA9

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8. 2008 UK Paperback: Nineteen Eighty Three (ISBN 9781846687082)

- The publication date is incomplete. Amazon lists September 4, 2008: https://amzn.eu/d/eQJyaW9

- The description is incorrect. It should read as follows, transcribed from the jacket:

With 1983 David Peace completes his Red Riding Quartet, an astonishingly sustained epic. Three intertwining storylines see the Quartet’s central themes of corruption and the perversion of justice come to a head: BJ the rent boy from 1974, the lawyer Big John Pigott, who's as near as you get to a hero in Peace's world, and Maurice Jobson, the senior cop whose career of corruption and brutality has set all this in motion, find themselves on a collision course that can only end in a terrible vengeance. 1983 is a fitting conclusion to one of the finest series in contemporary British writing.

- The cover art is very small and low quality. Higher quality art here: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/8... // https://amzn.eu/d/eQJyaW9

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9. Current UK Paperback: Red Riding Nineteen Eighty Three (ISBN 9781781259924)

- The title is incorrect. It should be Nineteen Eighty Three.

- The page count is incorrect. WorldCat confirms 405.

- “Main – Classic” should be removed from the Editions field.

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10. UK Kindle: Nineteen Eighty-Three (ASIN B0041G68UK)

- The title is incorrect. It should be Nineteen Eighty Three.

- The publisher is missing. It needs to be Serpent’s Tail.

- “Main” needs to be removed from the Editions field.

- The cover art is incorrectly set to a low-quality version of the US cover. Correct art here: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/A... // https://amzn.eu/d/7iIhb90

- The description is incorrect. It should read as follows:

1983's three intertwining storylines see the Quartet's central themes of corruption and the perversion of justice come to a head as BJ, the rent boy from Nineteen Seventy Four, the lawyer Big John Piggott - who's as near as you get to a hero in Peace's world - and Maurice Jobson, the senior cop whose career of corruption and brutality has set all this in motion, find themselves on a collision course that can only end in a terrible vengeance.

1983 is an epic tale which concluded an extraordinary body of work confirming Peace as the most innovative and remarkable new British crime writer to have emerged for years.

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11. UK Ebook: Nineteen Eighty-Three (ISBN 9781847655011)

- The publisher is incorrect. It should be Serpent’s Tail.

- The publication date is incorrect. It should be October 1, 2010.

- The page count is incorrect. It should be 416.

- The description is incorrect. It should be the same as #10.

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12. ACE Creation: UK Ebook

The following ACE needs to be created for ISBN 9781847655011:

TITLE: Nineteen Eighty Three
AUTHOR: David Peace
ISBN-10: 1847655017
ISBN-13: 9781847655011
ASIN: 1847655017
PUBLISHER: Serpent’s Tail
DATE PUBLISHED: April 5, 2018
NUMBER OF PAGES: [not available]
FORMAT: Ebook
DESCRIPTION: [same as #10]
EDITION LANGUAGE: English
COVER ART: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/A...

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13. Missing Edition: UK Audible

TITLE: Nineteen Eighty Three
AUTHOR: David Peace
NARRATOR: Saul Reichlin
ASIN: B0042AJOPQ
PUBLISHER: Audible Studios
DATE PUBLISHED: September 7, 2010
NUMBER OF PAGES: 16
FORMAT: Audible
DESCRIPTION:

The fourth and Final Instalment in the Red Riding Quartet. With Nineteen Eighty Three, David Peace completes the Red Riding Quartet, an astonishing, sustained epic. Three intertwining storylines see the Quartet’s central themes of corruption and the perversion of justice come to a head.

BJ, the rent boy from 1974; the lawyer Big John Piggott, who’s as near as you get to a hero in Peace’s world; and Maurice Jobson, the senior cop whose career of corruption and brutality has set all this in motion, find themselves on a collision course that can only end in a terrible vengeance.

EDITION LANGUAGE: English
COVER ART: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/8... // https://amzn.eu/d/0aW16dc

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14. UK Hardcover: Nineteen Eighty-Three (ISBN 9781847245380)

- The publication date is incorrect. It should be October 1, 2009 according to the publisher site (https://www.quercusbooks.co.uk/titles...)

- The description is incorrect. It should read as follows, transcribed from the description:

Three men, three months of hell.

May 1983. John Pigott, an overweight lawyer as noble in his intentions as he is a slave to his desires, finds that the man convicted for Clare Kemplay's murder might just be innocent – and that all the people who could answer his questions are dead.

June 1977. BJ, the rent boy from Nineteen Seventy Four, is on the run, his life in danger for what he knows, plagued by the horrors he has witnessed. Soon he must confront the possibility that the man purporting to be his saviour is the devil himself.

December 1974. Maurice Jobson, the senior policeman known as “The Owl,” is increasingly sucked into a morass of corruption where murder and cruelty become the only tools for survival. His actions will set the whole infernal engine in motion.

In Nineteen Eighty Three, David Peace's hugely influential Red Riding Quartet, one of the finest series in contemporary British crime writing, is brought to a close with a finale more shocking and intense than anything before.

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15. Invalid Editions

All of the following need to be invalidated:

A. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
B. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
C. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
D. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
E. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
F. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

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