The Big Nowhere

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 also the author of two other Freddy Otash novels, Widespread Panic and The Enchanters . He was awarded the 2022 Los Angeles Times Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement. He lives in Colorado. Klappentext A startling panorama of Los Angeles in the fifties. New Year's Eve as 1949 turns to 1950, Los Angeles: The City of Angels has becomes the city of the Angel of Death. Communist witch-hunts and insanely violent killings are terrorising the community. Three men are plunged into a maelstrom of violence and deceit when their lives become inextricably linked as each one confronts his own personal darkness. The second of the LA Quartet, the epigraph for The Big Nowhere is a passage from a novel; "It was written that I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice- Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness." Zusammenfassung A startling panorama of Los Angeles in the fifties. New Year's Eve as 1949 turns to 1950, Los Angeles: The City of Angels has becomes the city of the Angel of Death. Communist witch-hunts and insanely violent killings are terrorising the community.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: James Ellroy, Ellroy James
• Editore: Windmill Books
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 02.06.2011
• EAN: 9780099537878
• ISBN: 978-0-09-953787-8
• Pagine: 496
• Dimensioni: 129 mm x 198 mm x 30 mm
• Serie: Arrow Books; Die L.A.-Tetralogie; L.A. Quartet; L.A. Quartett; L.A. Quartett; Die L.A.-Tetralogie; L.A. Quartet
• Categorie: Narrativa > Gialli > Polizieschi, thriller, spionaggio; Los Angeles, FICTION / Crime, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled, FICTION / Noir, Thriller / suspense fiction, Thriller / suspense, Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction