Crime Wave
Opis
James Ellroy is a unique and powerful writer with a tough and explosive voice. His obsession with the dark side of L. A. is personal and vital, triggered by the murder of his mother when he was ten. 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. Ellroy exploits memory, history, fact and fiction with relentless energy and panache. What emerges is an intense, mythical version of tinseltown in the second half of the twentieth century. "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
"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