A review by paul_cornelius
Occupied City by David Peace

2.0

Essentially, a failure. In Occupied City, David Peace allows form to overwhelm content to the point the story becomes lost and uninteresting. Peace is not as daring and innovative as he seems to imagine; otherwise, he would have brought more control to this novel. I have seen this before in genre writers who simply can't let an initial insight go--it was common in science fiction writers in the late 1960s and 1970s. The obsession with an elliptical form to the point of indifference. I can see how this might appeal to first year graduate students in a literature program who have just discovered modern and post-modern challenges. But it really is imitative. And the tone is monotonous.