Hollywood Nocturnes
by James Ellroy
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Author: James EllroyEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1998-11-10
ISBN: 0385333285
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Delta
Book Reviews of Hollywood Nocturnes
Book Review: Another winner by Ellroy!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
James Ellroy has done it again with the gritty, violent and disturbing collection of short stories, "Hollywood Nocturnes". My favorites were "Dial Axminster 6-400", "Since I Don't Have You", and "Dick Contino's Blues". All were wonderfully exciting as the always splendid Ellroy whips out razor-sharp prose about dirty cops, femme fatales, and smart-ass private investigators. A wonderful collection and another win for the best crime writer out there today, James Ellroy.
Summary of Hollywood Nocturnes
Set in Los Angeles from 1947 to 1959, Hollywood Nocturnes gives us an afterword and six stories set in the same crime-ridden, sex-crazed period of history of James Ellroy's L.A. Quartet novels (which include L.A. Confidential and The Big Nowhere).Dig this: the swinging sax man's doing repos and plotting a kidnapping-of himself; a tommy gun is ripping apart windows, curtains, and bodies in High Darktown; a carhop at Scrivner's is keeping two extremely sweet sugar daddies, Howard Hughes and mobster Mickey Cohen, happy-until the scene turns murderous.
This is the hip-hop hard-edged world of L.A. 1950s style: cars with fins, Commies in closets, starmakers with come-ons, ex-cons with guns, and cops with mean streaks as wide as Sunset Strip.
James Ellroy's bizarre, stark tales dazzle us with their unexpected humor, raw brutality, and slightly lighter-than-usual noir realism. Hollywood Nocturnes is quintessential Ellroy: bluesy, black, and very, very hot.
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