- Political corruption, Fiction, Criminals, Violence
We are behind, and below, the scenes of JFK's Presidential election, the Bay of Pigs, the assassination - in the underworld that connects Miami, Los Angeles, Chicago, D.C.... Where the CIA, the Mob, J.
Log it
Sign in to log this.
Character
Relentless, grave, bleak and epic.
- contemplativerelentless
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- intimateepic
- cooloverwhelming
Who loves it, who doesn't
No profiled raters yet.
Ask the title
A yes-or-no question, answered from what people wrote here, on TMDB and on Wikipedia. Never made up.
Reviews
No reviews yet.
About the book
- Author
- James Ellroy
- First published
- 1995
- Pages
- 592
- Publisher
- Ivy Books, Books on Tape, Inc., Ithaki Yayinlari
- Editions
- 27
- Language
- Portuguese, German, French, Russian
- ISBN
- 9781407095097
Where to read
Libraries first: a card gets you most books for nothing. Each opens that service’s page for this title.
On Open Library, 14 have read it and 37 want to.
“He always shot up by TV light.”
Lee Earle "James" Ellroy is an American crime fiction writer and essayist. Ellroy has become known for a telegrammatic prose style in his most recent work, wherein he frequently omits connecting words and uses only short, staccato sentences, and in particular for the novels *The Black Dahlia* (1987), *The Big Nowhere* (1988), *L.A. Confidential* (1990), *White Jazz* (1992), *American Tabloid* (1995), *The Cold Six Thousand* (2001), and *Blood's a Rover* (2009). *-- Wikipedia*
Similar in taste
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Tastebuds Other media included when they land close.
The Dark Knight returns 198670% alikeBoth grave, relentless, bleak.
White Jazz 199169% alikeBoth grave, bleak, relentless.
Providence 201768% alikeBoth grave, bleak, relentless.
Blood Meridian 198568% alikeBoth bleak, grave, epic.
The dark tower 199068% alikeBoth epic, grave, bleak.
The Underground Railroad 200067% alikeBoth grave, bleak, relentless.
Kaputt 194667% alikeBoth bleak, grave, relentless.
The thousandfold thought 200665% alikeBoth grave, epic, bleak.
Blasphemous 201969% alikeGame · Both grave, bleak, epic.
Akira 198868% alikeFilm · Both relentless, grave, epic.