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Crime Wave : Reportage and Fiction from the Underside of L. A. by James Ellroy (1999, Trade Paperback)

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 Title
Crime Wave : Reportage and Fiction from the Underside of L. A.
Author
James Ellroy
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Mystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled, Murder / General, Mystery & Detective / General
Publication Year
1999
Genre
True Crime, Fiction
Number of Pages
304 Pages

Lc Classification Number
Ps3555.L6274a6 1999
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, "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
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
98-037459
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Dewey Edition
21

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