The L.A. Quartet by James Ellroy
Here in one volume is James Ellroy's first great body of work, an epic re-envisioning of postwar Los Angeles--etched in red and black and film-noir grays.The Black Dahlia depicts the secret infrastructure of L.A.'s most sensational murder case. A young cop morphs into obsessed lover and lust-crazed avenger. The Dahlia claims him. She is the deus ex machina of a boomtown in extremis. The cop's rogue investigation is a one-way ticket to hell.
The Big Nowhere blends the crime novel and the political novel. It is winter, 1950--and the L.A. County Grand Jury is out to slam movieland Reds. It's a reverential shuck--and the three cops assigned to the job are out to grab all the glory they can. A series of brutal sex killings intervenes, and the job goes all-the-way bad.
L.A. Confidential is the great novel of Los Angeles in the 1950s. Political corruption. Scandal-rag journalism. Bad racial juju and gangland wars. Six local stiffs slaughtered in an all-night hash house. The glorious and overreaching LAPD on an unprecedented scale.
White Jazz gives us the tortured confession of a corrupt cop going down for the count. He's a slumlord, a killer, a parasitic exploiter. He's a pawn in a series of police power plays and starting to see that he's being had. He's just met a woman. Thus, he's determined to claw his way out of the horrifying world he's created--and he's determined to tell us everything.
The L.A. Quartet is a groundbreaking work of American popular fiction.
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1984
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The Cairo Trilogy
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Animal Farm
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The Periodic Table
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The Stranger
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Things Fall Apart
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Song of Solomon
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The Collected Works of Kahlil Gibran
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We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live
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Lolita
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The Border Trilogy
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David Golder, The Ball, Snow in Autumn, The Courilof Affair
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Love in the Time of Cholera
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The Plague, The Fall, Exile and the Kingdom, and Selected Essays
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The Fire Next Time; Nobody Knows My Name; No Name in the Street; The Devil FindsWork
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The Talented Mr. Ripley, Ripley Under Ground, Ripley's Game
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The African Trilogy
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Rabbit Angstrom
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Go Tell It on the Mountain
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His Dark Materials
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The Handmaid's Tale
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End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland
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Collected Stories of Roald Dahl
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The Diary of a Young Girl
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Life and Fate
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Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation
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Collected Stories of Raymond Chandler
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Collected Stories of Franz Kafka
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Midnight's Children
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The Collected Stories of Mavis Gallant
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Collected Stories of W. Somerset Maugham
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Dispatches
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The Trial
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The Big Sleep; Farewell, My Lovely; The High Window
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Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable
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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
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Pale Fire
In 1948, James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles. He's the man behind the L.A. The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, and L.A. Quartet Secrecy, White Jazz, and the United States of America's Underworld American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand, and Blood's A Rover are the three books in the American Tabloid trilogy.
These seven books have received various awards and have gone on to become international best sellers. Ellroy is now based in Los Angeles. www.jamessellroy.net is a website dedicated to James Sellroy.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781101908051 |
| ISBN 10 | 110190805X |
| Title | The L.A. Quartet |
| Author | James Ellroy |
| Series | Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2019-06-04 |
| Number of pages | 1416 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |