Book description
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. James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. He is
the author of the acclaimed LA Quartet,
The Black Dahlia
, The Big Nowhere
, LA Confidential
and White Jazz
, as well as the first two parts of his Underworld USA trilogy,
American Tabloid
and The Cold Six Thousand
which were both Sunday Times
bestsellers.
