Los Angeles, 1958: a city on the make. A boom town at the edge of a new era ripe for plunder. Lieutenant Dave Klein: in turn a lawyer, bagman, slum landlord,
Contained in this heap of seemingly harried handwriting is novelist James Ellroy’s fourth and final installment in the so-called L.A. Quartet: 1992’s White Jazz. The book, about a lunatic, hateful Los Angeles police lieutenant murdering for the mob until the …
The book was published in multiple languages including English, consists of 368 pages and is available in Paperback format. The main characters of this mystery, crime story are Edmund Exley, Dudley Smith. White Jazz is the concluding novel of James Ellroy’s LA Quartet. Structured as the first-person reminiscences of the feverous ex-detective and Mob enforcer Dave Klein looking back on his violent career in the LAPD, White Jazz is a difficult and controversial novel.While the material may be alienating to some readers, if you can tap into the rhythm of Klein’s thinking and the apocalyptic James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. His L.A. Quartet novels The Black Dahlia , The Big Nowhere , L.A. Confidential , and White Jazz , were international best-sellers. His novel American Tabloid was Time magazine’s Best Book (fiction) of 1995; his memoir, My Dark Places , was a Time Best Book of the Year and a New York Times Notable Book for 1996.
White Jazz closes out Ellroy's LA Quartet, and in doing so, takes us into the life of Dave Klein, Ad Vice lieutenant in the LAPD.Unlike The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere and LA Confidential, Ellroy's writing style is dialed up full throttle, set at pure, raw energy here as he moves his reader into Klein's head "his voice clipped, sharp, often as brutal as the events he's describing -- taking James Ellroy discusses his novel, "This Storm", at Politics and Prose on 6/7/19.Ellroy, one of the top crime fiction writers working today, excels at telling James Ellroy sits reading Jack Webb’s The Badge in the Clark Gable-Carole Lombard suite of the Alexandria Hotel, downtown L.A., Fall of 1994. I’m there as factotum, Johnny-come-lately interviewer asking the “Demon Dog of American Literature” listed and off-the-cuff questions for a documentary called White Jazz. We filmed a preliminary Q&A the day before at a motel near Hollywood where WHITE JAZZ is a book written by James Ellroy in 1992. The novel concludes the L.A. QUARTET. Click here to see the rest of this review. Dave Klein remembers.
James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. His L.A. Quartet novels - The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential and White Jazz - were international bestsellers. His novel American Tabloid was Time's Novel of the Year for 1995; his memoir My Dark Places was a Time Best Book and a New York Times Notable Book for 1996.
James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. His L.A. Quartet novels—The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, and White Jazz—were international best sellers. -- James Ellroy, White Jazz 4.5 stars. Sure, you could read this as just the final book in Ellory's masterpiece LA Quartet, but Ellory is playing for bigger stakes.
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. His most recent novel, Blood's a Rover, completes the magisterial 'Underworld USA Trilogy' - the first two volumes of which (American Tabloid and The Cold Six Thousand) were both Sunday Times bestsellers.
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Shakedown Freddy Otash Confesses, James Ellroy, Oct 4, 2012, Fiction, . James Ellroy is an American original of the most profane order. The bestselling author of the noir classics "L.A. Confidential," "The Black Dahlia," and "The Cold Six Thousand. White Jazz , Charles Newman, Jan 1, 1984, Fiction, 213 pages. . James Ellroy was 10 when his mother died, and he spent the next 36 years running from her ghost and attempting to exorcize it through crime fiction.
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Hans tidigare verk kan sägas vara mer traditionella kriminalromaner, men i och med American Tabloid ( En amerikansk myt ) kom han att omfatta nationella politiska intriger och en utveckling av sin komplexa samhällssyn. White Jazz is, like the other three novels in Ellroy's "L.A. Quartet" quite an excellent read. The only snag for some readers will be that White Jazz was either written in a very different, stripped-down style than the three novels that precede it, or at least represents the most extreme form of a style that began to emerge in L.A. Confidential.
Blandt hans mange værker, hvoraf de fleste er oversat til dansk, er The L.A. Quartet (The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential og White Jazz) og Underworld USA Trilogy (American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand og Blood's a Rover). Contained in this heap of seemingly harried handwriting is novelist James Ellroy’s fourth and final installment in the so-called L.A. Quartet: 1992’s White Jazz. The book, about a lunatic, hateful Los Angeles police lieutenant murdering for the mob until the gun is aimed at him, is almost 30 years old and set in 1958.
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James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. His L.A. Quartet novels—The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, and White Jazz—were international best sellers.His novel American Tabloid was Time magazine’s Best Book (fiction) of 1995; his memoir, My Dark Places, was a Time Best Book of the Year and a New York Times Notable Book for 1996.
White Jazz is a 1992 crime fiction novel by James Ellroy. It is the fourth in his L.A. Quartet, preceded by The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, and L.A. Los Angeles, 1958: a city on the make. A boom town at the edge of a new era ripe for plunder.
Vit jazz [Elektronisk resurs] Ellroy, James Elektronisk resurs av: Vit jazz / James Ellroy ; översättning: Thomas Preis. [Ny utg.]. Originaltitel: White jazz.
I suoi romanzi, dalla quadrilogia di Los Angeles - Dalia nera, Il grande nulla, L.A. Confidential e White Jazz - ad American Tabloid, sono bestsellers internazionali. Vai alla scheda autore Lee Earle "James" Ellroy (born March 4, 1948) 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 Critiques (17), citations (15), extraits de Le Quatuor de Los Angeles, tome 4 : White jazz de James Ellroy. Relaxe à côté de sa Chevy, Ellroy sirote une bignouse. Pris: 169 kr.
James Ellroy - White Jazz White Jazz è il quarto episodio della quadrilogia di Los Angeles e per certi versi è quello dove ho faticato di più a districarmi nella trama. L’inizio è a dir poco traumatico, nel senso che la narrazione in prima persona del protagonista David Klein Click to read more about White Jazz by James Ellroy. LibraryThing is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers Feroce, affascinante e affilato come la lama di un rasoio, White Jazz è il libro più coraggioso di James Ellroy.