American Tabloid
$35.37
- Paperback
592 pages
- Release Date
2 August 2010
Summary
The first novel in Ellroy’s extraordinary Underworld USA Trilogy.
- America is about to emerge into a bright new age - an age that will last until the 1000 days of John F Kennedy’s presidency.
Three men move beneath the glossy surface of power, men allied to the makers and shakers of the era.
Pete Bondurant - Howard Hughes’s right-hand man, Jimmy Hoffa’s hitman. Kemper Boyd - employed by J Edgar Hoover to infiltrate the Kennedy clan. Ward Littell - a man see…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099537823 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099537826 |
| Author: | James Ellroy |
| Publisher: | Cornerstone |
| Imprint: | Windmill Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 592 |
| Release Date: | 2 August 2010 |
| Weight: | 414g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 36mm |
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Intense and flamboyant… excellent. The plot runs on high-octane violence… a powerful book… one emerges breathless, shaken and ready to change one’s view of recent American history
“Intense and flamboyant… excellent. The plot runs on high-octane violence… a powerful book… one emerges breathless, shaken and ready to change one’s view of recent American history” Sunday Telegraph “Brilliant and appalling. It is deeply repelling portraiture, yet mesmerising” The Times “Laconic violence, terse, slang-driven sentences, and a gleeful blurring of the moral line between good guys and bad guys… Seven hundred pages of this stuff left me feeling punch-drunk and dizzy, but then it sure beats the hell out of Anita Brookner” Mail on Sunday “A frenetic and explosive thriller …” Sunday Times “One of the most important popular-fiction writers in America … a Tinsel town Dostoyevsky” Time Out
About The Author
James Ellroy
James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. He is the author of the acclaimed LA Quartet, The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, LA Confidential and White Jazz, as well as the first two parts of his Underworld USA trilogy, American Tabloid and The Cold Six Thousand which were both Sunday Times bestsellers.
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