This Storm (häftad)
Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
608
Utgivningsdatum
2020-03-05
Förlag
Windmill Books
Dimensioner
196 x 128 x 36 mm
Vikt
420 g
ISBN
9780099537779

This Storm

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________________________ 'Ellroy writes with raw power undeniably one of the most influential crime writers of our time' THE TIMES 'a tangled fever-dream Ellroy offers a grandiose, Wagnerian vision of wartime LA' SUNDAY TIMES ________________________ A brilliant historical crime novel, set in Los Angeles and Mexico during the pulse-pounding aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor. January, 42. L.A. reels behind the shock of Pearl Harbor. Local Japanese are rounded up and slammed behind bars. Massive thunderstorms hit the city. A body is unearthed in Griffith Park. The cops tag it a routine dead-man job. Theyre wrong. Its an early-warning signal of Chaos. Theres a murderous fire and a gold heist exploding out of the past. Theres Fifth Column treason at this moment, on American soil. There are homegrown Nazis, commies and race racketeers. Theres two dead cops in a dive off the jazz-club strip. And three men and one woman have a hot date with History. Elmer Jackson is a corrupt Vice cop. Hes a flesh peddler and a bagman for the L.A. Chief of Police. Hideo Ashida is a crime-lab whiz, lashed by anti-Japanese rage. Dudley Smith is a PD hardnose working Army Intelligence. Hes gone rogue and gone all-the-way fascist. Joan Conville was born rogue. Shes a defrocked Navy lieutenant and a war profiteer to her core. L.A., 42. Homefront madness ascendant. Early-wartime inferno This Storm is James Ellroys most audacious novel yet. It is by turns savage, tender, elegiac. It lays bare and celebrates crazed Americans of all stripes. ________________________ Epic crime writing from a master DAILY MAIL Ellroy is unique. There is nobody writing this way Nobody has done or is doing what he is doing BOOKMUNCH
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Ellroy writes with raw power James Ellroy writes big Ellroy is undeniably one of the most influential crime writers of our time. But can the raw energy of his fiction outweigh the disgustingness and balderdash? Yes; if you see his novels as antidotes to the fake sunshine that Los Angeles, via the big screen, has blown in the worlds face for a century. * The Times * James Ellroy is one of Americas greatest living crime novelists This Storm [is] a tangled fever-dream set in 1942 Los Angeles Good, unclean fun Ellroy offers a grandiose, Wagnerian vision of wartime LA Packed with almost every Ellroy obsession under the sun: murder, robbery, rape and torture; small-time corruption and big-time history; sexual intrigue and moral ambivalence; lust, yearning, racism, alcoholism, degeneracy and drug abuse; plastic surgery, prostitution, policemen and paedophilia; scandal, sodomy and sin I will live and die an Ellroy fanboy. * Sunday Times * Ellroy remains one of the most exciting literary stylists in the English language Its been five years since the last novel from the self-described Demon Dog of American letters, but its worth the wait. Like all good jazzmen, Ellroy works very hard indeed to make his music flow so easily. * Guardian * James Ellroy writes coarse, prurient, paranoid novels that often turn out to be masterpieces ... Truffling for atrocities in the dirty reality of crime seems to inspire him with a demonic energy that his distinctive telegraphic style is the perfect instrument to convey There are some terrific stretches including an account of the Battle of Los Angeles, the night in 1942 when a mass delusion arose that the city was under aerial attack that ranks among his best setpieces. * Daily Telegraph * Ellroy has never been a five-pages-before-bed kind of writer; his vision is more the fever dream after lights out. * Observer *

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James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles. He is the author of the Underworld U.S.A Trilogy: American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand, and Blood's A Rover, and the L.A. Quartet novels: The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, and White Jazz. He is the recipient of the Los Angeles Times Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement. He lives in Colorado.