Blood's A Rover: Underworld USA 3 - Brossura

Ellroy, James

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ISBN 10: 0375727418 ISBN 13: 9780375727412

Casa editrice: Vintage, 2010

Riassunto

A stand-alone sequel to the Time magazine Best Book American Tabloid and the Los Angeles Times Best Book The Cold Six Thousand traces the 1968 collision of a Klan-raised FBI agent, an ex-cop heroin runner and a divorce lawyer front-man with ties to the Kennedy assassinations. Reprint. A best-selling novel.

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"Darker, stranger and more compelling than almost anything else contemporary fiction has to offer."--Washington Post
 
"American fiction writing at its finest--a dexterous, astounding achievement."--Fort Worth Star-Telegram
 
"Absorbing and satisfying. . . Every page has at least one passage that's so snappy you want to reply it like a song."--Seattle Times

"Drop-dead great . . . . It'll blow your mind."--Austin American-Statesman
 
"Wild and brilliant, dazzling and funny . . . The plotting [is] fiendish and intricate . . . Ellroy's descriptions of violence remain powerful and slo-mo vivid."--Los Angeles Times
 
“Readers who love their noir blood-red will be giddy over Blood’s A Rover, the bang-up conclusion to James Ellroy’s Underworld USA trilogy . . . Ellroy’s prose is spare and riveting [and] his plot is hardball start to finish.”—USA Today
 
“A high-water mark in the career of one of America's best historical novelists.”—Denver Post
 
"Brilliant . . . There are no soft edges to this novel."--Minneapolis Star-Tribune
 
“Jaw-dropping . . . A remarkable literary achievement.”—Associated Press
 
"Ellroy employs a huge cast and hyper-pulp prose to create a convincingly horrific universe run by the F.B.I., the Mob, and a host of other sinister organizations."--The New Yorker
 
"[This] amounts to the hit-man theory of history . . . It's an outrageous, exhilarating, unpretty sight, and it's ingeniously plausible."--Boston Globe
 
"Another cocktail of speculative pop-pulp fiction, conspiracy-theorist wet dreams and a beguiling alternative history. Fans will be pleased as rum punch."--Time Out, New York
 
“The four-page intro has more acts of violence than hours of prime-time TV. The first word of the first chapter is ‘heroin.’. . Raymond Chandler, the founding father of hardboiled noir and one of Ellroy’s heroes, would have agreed with this approach.”—New York Post
 
“Fascinating. . . . Ellroy contextualizes expertly, bringing everyone from a swish Leonard Bernstein to a randy Redd Foxx to a junkie Sonny Liston onto his lurid playing field.”—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
 
“I was hooked on the first page . . . By the last page . . . I picked my jaw up from the floor and quietly closed the book. Wow.”—Randy Michael Signor, Chicago Sun-Times
 
“Exhilarating. . . . A snitch epic, a history observed by the bad men and women who shaped it.”—Portland Oregonian

L'autore:

James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. He is the author of the L.A. Quartet: The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, and White Jazz, and the Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy: American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand, and Blood’s A Rover. These seven novels have won numerous honors and were international best sellers. He is also the author of two collections, Crime Wave and Destination: Morgue! and two memoirs My Dark Places and The Hilliker Curse.  Ellroy currently lives in Denver, Colorado.

www.jamesellroy.net

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• Editore: Vintage
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0375727418
• ISBN 13: 9780375727412
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 656