The Big Nowhere
1st Edition
Published on 31. October 2011
496 pages
978-1-4070-8846-4 (ISBN)
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'The king of macho noir' GUARDIAN
'The American Dostoevsky' JOYCE CAROL OATES
'One of the great American writers of our time' LOS ANGELES TIMES
'Fierce, brave, funny, scatological, beautiful, convoluted and paranoid' STEPHEN KING
'One of the most original and daring writers alive' INDEPENDENT
A startling panorama of Los Angeles in the fifties. New Year's Eve as 1949 turns to 1950, Los Angeles: The City of Angels has becomes the city of the Angel of Death.
Communist witch-hunts and insanely violent killings are terrorising the community. Three men are plunged into a maelstrom of violence and deceit when their lives become inextricably linked as each one confronts his own personal darkness. The second of the LA Quartet, the epigraph for The Big Nowhere is a passage from a novel; "It was written that I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice- Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness."
'The American Dostoevsky' JOYCE CAROL OATES
'One of the great American writers of our time' LOS ANGELES TIMES
'Fierce, brave, funny, scatological, beautiful, convoluted and paranoid' STEPHEN KING
'One of the most original and daring writers alive' INDEPENDENT
A startling panorama of Los Angeles in the fifties. New Year's Eve as 1949 turns to 1950, Los Angeles: The City of Angels has becomes the city of the Angel of Death.
Communist witch-hunts and insanely violent killings are terrorising the community. Three men are plunged into a maelstrom of violence and deceit when their lives become inextricably linked as each one confronts his own personal darkness. The second of the LA Quartet, the epigraph for The Big Nowhere is a passage from a novel; "It was written that I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice- Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness."
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English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Cornerstone
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1,46 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-4070-8846-4 (9781407088464)
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James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. He is the author of the acclaimed 'LA Quartet': The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, LA Confidential and White Jazz. His most recent novel, Blood's a Rover, completes the magisterial 'Underworld USA Trilogy' - the first two volumes of which (American Tabloid and The Cold Six Thousand) were both Sunday Times bestsellers.
