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16.3.07

Damned United at the Art of Propaganda

Through sister company, Art Of Propaganda, GREEN is hosting a special exhibition based on the Damned United by local author David Peace - a fictional account based on the 44 day reign of mercurial football manager Brian Clough at Leeds United, back in 1974.
The exhibition is richly illustrated with the photo archive of local freelance press photographer David Hickes who chronicled the period for leading newspapers.
The event was timed to commemorate the anniversary of Brian Clough's birthday, on March 21 and runs until the end of the football season. The display also marks a personal interest for local MP, Ed Balls, a keen football fan, who gave an introduction to the show.
David Pearce is already recognised as one of the UK’s top creative writing talents - he is the author of The Red Riding Quartet and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel GB84 in 2004. David Peace currently lives in Tokyo, Japan, with his wife and two children.
His latest work, The Damned United is an extraordinarily inventive novel shifting between and across twelve years and 44 days in the life of Brian Clough, telling the story of a world characterized by a fear of failure and a hunger for success.
The book is a portrait of one of the most idiosyncratic Englishmen of the last century and is a story about power and paranoia coming together to shape a people and their times.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Dear blogger,

I work for Faber and Faber (we publish Damned United!) We have released this title as an audio CD read by John Simms. If you would like me to send you a free copy, please feel free to email me at tradefeedback@faber.co.uk

Thanks!

Anonymous said...

Dear Blogger,

I work for Faber and Faber - we publish The Damned Utd, and have released this title as an audio CD read by John Simms. If you would likeme to send you a free copy, please feel free to email me at tradefeedback@faber.co.uk

Thanks!