Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Ellroy, James |
| Publisher: | Vintage Crime/Black Lizard |
| Date: | 1/26/1999 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
Los no other city do sex, celebrity, money, and crime exert such an irresistible magnetic no writer has mapped that field with greater savagery and savvy than James 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 , he resurrects the rag Hush-Hush in a baroquely plotted novella of slaughter and corruption he enlists the forgotten luminaries of a lost , mesmerizing, and written in prose as wounding as an ice pick,
Crime Wave is Ellroy at his best.
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