Crime Wave
Reportage and Fiction from the Underside of L.A
Ellroy, James
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
Los Angeles. In no other city do sex, celebrity, money, and crime exert such an irresistible magnetic field. And no writer has mapped that field with greater savagery and savvy than James Ellroy. With this fever-hot collection of reportage and short fiction, he returns to his native habitat and portrays it as a smog-shrouded netherworld where"every third person is a peeper, prowler, pederast, or pimp."
From the scandal sheets of the 1950s to this morning's police blotter, Ellroy reopens true crimes and restores human dimensions to their victims. Sublimely, he resurrects the rag Hush-Hush magazine. And in a baroquely plotted novella of slaughter and corruption he enlists the forgotten luminaries of a lost Hollywood. Shocking, mesmerizing, and written in prose as wounding as an ice pick, Crime Wave is Ellroy at his best.
BOOK REVIEWS
"One of the best Amercan writers of our time." --Los Angeles Times
"A blood poet who writes as chain saws crank, Ellroy has vigorously redefined the well-shadowed turf of contemporary crime fiction." --The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
"Nobody in this generation matches the breadth and depth of James Ellroy's way with noir." --The Detroit News
"His spare noir style . . . hits like a cleaver but . . . is honed like a scalpel." --Chicago Tribune
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 037570471X
ISBN(13-digit): 9780375704710
Copyright: 1999
Dewey Decimal: 813/.54
Library of Congress: 98037459
Book Publisher: Random House Inc
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 288
Paper Weight (lb): 0.55
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