Crime Wave

james ellroy

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.

Genres crimefictionshort storiestrue crimenoirmysterythrillerdetectivehard boiledessays

0 pages, Audio Cassette

First published January 1,1999

This edition

Format: 0 pages, Audio Cassette
Published: January 1, 1999 by Books on Tape
ISBN: 9780736644792
ASIN: 0736644792
Language: English

About the author

james ellroy

Lee Earle "James" Ellroy is an American crime fiction writer and essayist. Ellroy has become known for a telegrammatic prose style in his most recent work, wherein he frequently omits connecting words and uses only short, staccato sentences, and in particular for the novels The Black Dahlia (1987) and L.A. Confidential (1990).