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Crime Wave: Reportage and Fiction from the Underside of L.A.

Crime Wave: Reportage and Fiction from the Underside of L.A.

Ellroy, James

Paperback

Mystery & Thriller

ISBN10: 037570471X
ISBN13: 9780375704710
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: Jan 26 1999
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.73 Width: 5.22 Depth: 8.02
Language: English
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 whereevery 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.

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