Author: James Ellroy
Narrator: Dick Hill
Unabridged: 6 hr 19 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Highbridge Audio
Published: 07/09/2013
Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective
James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. He is the author of the L.A. Quartet: The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, and White Jazz, the Second L.A. Quartet: Perfidia, and the Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy: American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand, and Blood’s a Rover. These novels have won numerous honors and were international bestsellers. Ellroy currently lives in Los Angeles.
A great, yet exhausting collection. Noir on speed. All the stories are dense and incredibly fast paced. Ellroy trying to cram a novel's worth of ideas into a novella or novelette, sometimes coming off a little Keystone Kops. All are gritty, with flashes of humor and 50's era tough guy slang, and fil......more
Raccolta discontinua di racconti che vedono come protagonisti i personaggi che animano con ben altra verve e riuscita i grandi romanzi ellroyani della Citta' degli Angeli. Rapide incursioni, sesso, soldi, depravazione, intrigo e autodistruzione; scrittura come sempre roboante ed ellittica, il nostro......more
Featuring many of the bit part characters from Ellroy's novels in more central roles, and written in his own inimitable style. Well worth reading for the completists.......more
William Johnson has given a terrific review here with a concise breakdown of each story. Here is my two cents, to do with the main story "Dick Contino's Blues". First thing I thought of when I saw this book in the shops was ""Daddy O"!!! you mean someone else in the world has heard of this movie"!!! If y......more
Ashamed to say, that this was my first foray into the dark world of Ellroy. It won't be the last. Not all the stories are classics (some could be left out altogether) and without a reread I would be hard pushed to name a favourite. If, like me, you're yet to read the long acclaimed master of L. A. N......more