Crime Wave: Reportage and Fiction from the Underside of L.A. Paperback - 1999
by James Ellroy
With this fever-hot collection of reportage and short fiction, the author of "L.A. Confidential" returns to his native habitat and portrays Los Angeles as a smog-shrouded netherworld.
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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 where"every 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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- Title Crime Wave: Reportage and Fiction from the Underside of L.A.
- Author James Ellroy
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st Vintage Crim
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1999-01-26
- ISBN 9780375704710 / 037570471X
- Weight 0.57 lbs (0.26 kg)
- Dimensions 8.02 x 5.22 x 0.73 in (20.37 x 13.26 x 1.85 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Western U.S.
- Cultural Region: West Coast
- Demographic Orientation: Urban
- Geographic Orientation: California
- Library of Congress subjects Los Angeles (Calif.), Criminals
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98037459
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- Booklist, 03/15/1999, Page 1284
- Brill's Content, 08/01/1999, Page 120
- Kirkus Reviews, 03/15/1999, Page 425
- Library Journal, 03/15/1999, Page 78
- New York Times, 03/14/1999, Page 22
- Publishers Weekly, 02/22/1999, Page 69
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