| The L.A. Quartet: The Black Dahlia, the Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, White Jazz; Introduction by Tom Nolan Contributor(s): Ellroy, James (Author), Nolan, Tom (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 110190805X ISBN-13: 9781101908051 Publisher: Everyman's Library OUR PRICE: $36.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Crime - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled |
| Dewey: 813.54 |
| Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics |
| Physical Information: 2.5" H x 5.5" W x 8.1" (2.65 lbs) 1416 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Here in one volume is James Ellroy's first great body of work, an epic re-envisioning of postwar Los Angeles--etched in red and black and film-noir grays. The Black Dahlia depicts the secret infrastructure of L.A.'s most sensational murder case. A young cop morphs into obsessed lover and lust-crazed avenger. The Dahlia claims him. She is the deus ex machina of a boomtown in extremis. The cop's rogue investigation is a one-way ticket to hell. The Big Nowhere blends the crime novel and the political novel. It is winter, 1950--and the L.A. County Grand Jury is out to slam movieland Reds. It's a reverential shuck--and the three cops assigned to the job are out to grab all the glory they can. A series of brutal sex killings intervenes, and the job goes all-the-way bad. L.A. Confidential is the great novel of Los Angeles in the 1950s. Political corruption. Scandal-rag journalism. Bad racial juju and gangland wars. Six local stiffs slaughtered in an all-night hash house. The glorious and overreaching LAPD on an unprecedented scale. White Jazz gives us the tortured confession of a corrupt cop going down for the count. He's a slumlord, a killer, a parasitic exploiter. He's a pawn in a series of police power plays and starting to see that he's being had. He's just met a woman. Thus, he's determined to claw his way out of the horrifying world he's created--and he's determined to tell us everything. The L.A. Quartet is a groundbreaking work of American popular fiction. |