- Crime, Fiction, Crime in fiction, American Detective and mystery stories
The author of *The Black Dahlia* presents the powerful second novel in his L.A. Quartet. In *The Big Nowhere*, three men are caught up in a massive web of ambition, perversion and deceit. A remarkably vivid portrait of a remarkable time and place.
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Grave, bleak, classical in form and earnest.
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- James Ellroy
- First published
- 1988
- Pages
- 496
- Publisher
- RH Canada UK Dist, Ediciones B Grupo Zeta, Books on Tape, Inc.
- Editions
- 31
- Language
- Italian, German, French, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780099366614
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- Crime
- Fiction
- Crime in fiction
- American Detective and mystery stories
- Fiction, mystery & detective, general
- Upshaw, danny (fictitious character), fiction
- Los angeles (calif.), fiction
- Fiction, mystery & detective, hard-boiled
- Communism and society
- Mystery & Detective - General
- Fiction - Mystery/ Detective
- Crime, fiction
“Thundershowers hit just before midnight, drowning out the horn honks and noisemaker blare that usually signalled New Year's on the Strip, bringing 1950 to the West Hollywood Substation in a wave of hot squeals with meat wagon backup.”
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*
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