The Big Nowhere - Couverture souple

Ellroy, James

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0445408324 ISBN 13 : 9780445408326

Editeur : Mysterious Press, 1989

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

"Epic, obsessively imagined history" (The Face)

"Like Hammett and Chandler, but Ellroy adds layers they never dared.One of the most compelling crime novels in a long time" (Philadelphia Enquirer)

"One of the best and most important writers in America today" (Vox)

"The man who calls himself "the demon dog" of American crime fiction is still the classiest act around" (Daily Mail)

"Ellroy is the author of some of the most powerful crime novels ever written" (New York Times)

Biographie de l'auteur

James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. He is the author of the acclaimed L.A. Qurtet - The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, LA Confidential and White Jazz, as well as the Underworld USA trilogy: American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand and Blood's a Rover. He is the author of one work of non-fiction, The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women. Ellroy lives in Los Angeles.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Mysterious Press
• Date d'édition: 1989
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0445408324
• ISBN 13: 9780445408326
• Reliure: Poche
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible