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Charlie Peace (comics)
Charlie Peace may refer to: * ''Charlie Peace'' (comics), a comic strip in the UK comic ''Buster'' * ''Charlie Peace'' (novel), a comic novel by British writer Paul Pickering * Charles Peace (1832–1879), English burglar and murderer {{disambiguation ...
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Charlie Peace (novel)
''Charlie Peace'' is the controversial comic novel by British writer Paul Pickering. It was published in the United States by Random House but not in the United Kingdom because of fears of Christian blasphemy prosecutions against the background of The Satanic Verses controversy.''The Sunday Times'', 17 November 1991 Plot summary Criminal Jack Peachey needs to find his own human narrative in the incredible stories Charlie Peace told him when he was a boy. He wants to imagine a Christ in his own image. Reception The book received favourable reviews in the USA. Publishers Weekly called the novel ‘A bizarre, wildly surreal fantasy that lampoons Christianity and organised religion ... makes Salvador Dali’s psychospiritual rantings look tame.’Publishers Weekly, 25 July 1991 The novel not being published in the UK led to Pickering leaving his then publishers Chatto & Windus. The row led The Sunday Times ''The Sunday Times'' is a British Sunday newspaper whose circula ...
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