Re: RARA-AVIS: Final Words on Ellroy

Diane Trap (trap@rhett.libs.uga.edu)
Tue, 19 May 1998 17:49:45 -0400 (EDT) > Ellroy is nostalgic, as we have noted, but he is also something of a
> sentimentalist, I think. Perhaps the combination of hard action and
> sentimental ethos give his writing its charm.
>
> Doug

Can you give an example of why you consider him a sentimentalist,
or his sentimental ethos? I've never heard "sentimental" and
"Ellroy" in the same sentence before--I'm not saying I disagree,
or that I will disagree, but I'd just like to hear more of your
reasoning.

-----Diane Trap
trap@rhett.libs.uga.edu
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