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Grave, bleak, classical in form and earnest.
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- warmbleak
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- James Ellroy
- First published
- 1986
- Pages
- 288
- Publisher
- BBC Audiobooks America, Ullstein Tb, Editions Rivages
- Editions
- 22
- Language
- German, French, Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9780792740117
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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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