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Crime Wave

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Crime Wave
Authors and Contributors      By (author) James Ellroy
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:304
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129
Category/GenreTrue Crime
Crime and mystery
ISBN/Barcode 9780099279990
ClassificationsDewey:364.15230979494
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Cornerstone
Imprint Arrow Books Ltd
Publication Date 7 October 1999
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Reportage and fiction from the underside of LA 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.

Author Biography

James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. His novels, The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, White Jazz, American Tabloid and My Dark Places have won numerous awards and were international bestsellers. He lives with his wife in Kansas.

Reviews

One of the great American writers of our time * Los Angeles Times * Ellroy is the author of some of the most powerful crimer novels ever written * Frank Rich, New York Times *