Destino: la morgue
by James Ellroy
Illuminating all the dark places of Ellroy's life and imagination, this second volume of previously uncollected works includes writings from the beginning of his career as a writer-at-large for GQ, memoir pieces from the '60s and '70s, and three new novellas told from the perspective of carved-in-wood LAPD detective Rick Jenson. The mastery of noir convention, snappy dialogue, and cunning social observation for which Ellroy is admired are in full force throughout this collection. Desde sus primeras escrituras hasta tres nuevas novelas, esta coleccio n es una nueva inmersio n, intensa y adictiva, en el universo de James Ellroy. Desde la a cida cri tica a la lucha por la presidencia de Estados Unidos, pasando por los rings donde dejan la vida y buscan la fama los boxeadores mexicanos, hasta llegar a los relatos intimistas y autobiogra ficos, James Ellroy plasma su percepcio n de un mundo desquiciado en el que no siempre es posible hallar La Verdad. Leer esta coleccio n es descubrir lo que significa indignarse, rebelarse, sentir soledad, ternura, o desesperacio n con un escritor que conmueve tanto con una historia totalmente ficticia como con el relato de su propia experiencia vital.
FictionHorrorMystery & DetectiveLiterary Collections
RELEASED2004
PUBLISHEREdiciones B
LENGTH289
LANGUAGEES
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*
Destino: la morgue
by James Ellroy
Illuminating all the dark places of Ellroy's life and imagination, this second volume of previously uncollected works includes writings from the beginning of his career as a writer-at-large for GQ, memoir pieces from the '60s and '70s, and three new novellas told from the perspective of carved-in-wood LAPD detective Rick Jenson. The mastery of noir convention, snappy dialogue, and cunning social observation for which Ellroy is admired are in full force throughout this collection. Desde sus primeras escrituras hasta tres nuevas novelas, esta coleccio n es una nueva inmersio n, intensa y adictiva, en el universo de James Ellroy. Desde la a cida cri tica a la lucha por la presidencia de Estados Unidos, pasando por los rings donde dejan la vida y buscan la fama los boxeadores mexicanos, hasta llegar a los relatos intimistas y autobiogra ficos, James Ellroy plasma su percepcio n de un mundo desquiciado en el que no siempre es posible hallar La Verdad. Leer esta coleccio n es descubrir lo que significa indignarse, rebelarse, sentir soledad, ternura, o desesperacio n con un escritor que conmueve tanto con una historia totalmente ficticia como con el relato de su propia experiencia vital.
FictionHorrorMystery & DetectiveLiterary Collections
RELEASED2004
PUBLISHEREdiciones B
LENGTH289
LANGUAGEES
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*
