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Crime wave
reportage and fiction from the underside of L. A
By Ellroy, James
- ISBN
- 978-0-37570-471-0
- Publisher
- New York : Vintage Books, c1999.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on March 15, 1999
In Ellroy's crime novels (L.A. Confidential, Mysterious, 1990), Los Angeles of the 1940s and 1950s is not the city of angels but "a smog-shrouded netherworld... [where] every third person was a peeper, prowler, pederast, poon stalker, panty sniffer, prostitute, pillhead, or pimp." This collection of journalism and short stories, first published in GQ magazine between 1993 and 1998, reflect...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
