Blood’s a Rover — James Ellroy

[Otto]

http://www.amazon.de/Crime-Wave-James-Ellroy/dp/3550082894/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1264309409&sr=8-13

I've ordered one for 4,99

"Crime Wave
Reportage and fiction from the underside of L.A.
James Ellroy is a unique and powerful writer with a tough and
explosive voice. Stylish, graphic and raw, he has been hailed as 'the
most original crime writer of our time' and 'one of the best and most
important writers in America today'. Author of thirteen fiction and
non-fiction titles, this modern master of noir has garnered many
literary awards. The film adaptation of his novel L.A. Confidential
opened to mass critical acclaim and won two Oscars.
A self-confessed crime junkie, Ellroy's 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 his own writing is saturated in an often
violent underworld of bent cops, politicians, stars, sleaze and
rumour. Ellroy exploits memory, history, fact and fiction with
relentless energy and panache. What emerges is an intense, mythical
vision of Tinseltown in the second half of the twentieth century.
Crime Wave is a vivid portrait of James Ellroy's L.A. landscape. This
special collection showcases his investigative non-fiction articles,
Previously published in the American edition of GQ, and also includes
two new novellas, Hollywood Shakedown and Tijuana Mon Amour."

http://www.twbooks.co.uk/authors/jellroy.html#Crime%20Wave

2009/10/19 Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>:
> "In a sense, Blood’s comes across as the evil twin of Thomas Pynchon’s
> recent novel Inherent Vice. Both novels threaten to crush the reader
> under the densities of their plots, yet, where Pynchon allows his
> hippie detective Doc Sportello’s marijuana haze to infiltrate (and
> thus lighten) the novel’s discourse, Ellroy’s technique simply
> compounds and confounds in its ugliness...."
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> http://biblioklept.org/2009/10/18/bloods-a-rover-james-ellroy/
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