RARA-AVIS: Ellroy
Bax Deal (BaxDeal@aol.com)
Sat, 28 Mar 1998 17:08:09 EST
Ellroy's L.A. quartet (The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A.
Confidential
and White Jazz) are in my opinion of one piece and should be
read as such.
Since they are all quite dense, but decidedly superior to his
earlier
(although fascinating) work, I would suggest the stand alone
AMERICAN TABLOID,
which is not only his best work to date, but transcends the
genre into
literature.
If a shorter piece is in order, he has a collection of short
stories called
Hollywood Nocturnes, which includes the amusing novella DICK
CONTINO'S BLUES.
John Lau
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