Quote Originally Posted by Taunton Blue Genie View Post
The book is far darker, isn't it? And puts much more emphasis on his alcoholism if I remember rightly. It seemed more of a hatchet job than the film.
Yeah, I think his family sued and the book was rewritten to make him less of an alcoholic. My copy is the original, luckily.

There's also a good literary device, where the flashbacks to his time at Derby are in the unusual second person.

I liked the book a lot, so I tried another by David Peace about the aftermath of Hiroshima. That was written so weirdly I couldn't continue (and is incredibly dark).