Hollywood Nocturnes - Hardcover

Ellroy, James

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1883402549 ISBN 13: 9781883402549

Publisher: Prentice Hall & IBD, 1994

Synopsis

Presents six stories that take place in Los Angeles from 1947 to 1959

About this title

Review:

"You want tough-guy fiction? If you haven't checked out the great James Ellroy, chances are you like water in your whiskey, too. . . . A must for Ellroy fans."
--San Francisco Chronicle

"One of the great American writers of our time." --Los Angeles Times

"A blood poet who writes as chain saws crank, Ellroy has vigorously redefined the well-shadowed turf of contemporary crime fiction." --The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

"Our best living mystery writer. . . . Literate, suspenseful, honest. . . . His pages crackle with maniac energy. . . . Ellroy captures the vocabulary, the rituals, the smells and rhythms and colors of real people living on the edge. . . . Nobody since Chandler has evoked so perfectly the seamy side of L.A."
--Austin Chronicle

About the Author:

James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. His L.A. Quartet novels--The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, and White Jazz--were international bestsellers. American Tabloid was Time's Novel of the Year for 1995; his memoir My Dark Places was a Time Best Book of the Year and a New York Times Notable Book for 1996; his most recent novel, The Cold Six Thousand, was a New York Times Notable Book and a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year for 2001. He lives on the California coast.

About this edition

• Publisher: Prentice Hall & IBD
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 1883402549
• ISBN 13: 9781883402549
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 229