Crime Wave

Informationen zum Autor James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles. He is the author of the Underworld U.S.A Trilogy: American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand , and Blood's A Rover , and the L.A. Quartet novels: The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, and White Jazz. He is the recipient of the Los Angeles Times Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement. He lives in Colorado. Klappentext James Ellroy paints a vivid picture of Los Angeles, a city that features heavily in many of his novels, and especially its darker, sleazier side. This is a collection of non-fiction articles that have previously appeared in the American edition of )GQ(, and two novellas. Zusammenfassung James Ellroy is a unique and powerful writer with a tough and explosive voice. This defining event spawned an early addiction to paperback crime novels, and Ellroy's own writing is saturated in an often violent underworld of bent cops, politicians, stars, sleeze and rumour.

Product details

• Authors: James Ellroy
• Publisher: Arrow
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.10.1999
• EAN: 9780099279990
• ISBN: 978-0-09-927999-0
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Arrow Paperbacks; Arrow Paperbacks
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General, FICTION / Crime, Crime and mystery fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945), Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary