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Crime wave (edition 1999)

by James Ellroy, Michael Prichard

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Title:Crime wave
Authors:James Ellroy
Other authors:Michael Prichard
Info:Newport Beach, CA : Books on Tape, p1999.
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Crime Wave: Reportage and Fiction from the Underside of L.A. by James Ellroy

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Un despiadado periodista ventila los trapos sucios de los famosos, se revuelca con placer en el barro y mata si es preciso en defensa de la prensa amarilla. Un célebre acordeonista se convierte en adicto al homicidio. Un hombre investiga los archivos policiales para descubrir los posibles vínculos con el asesinato de su madre... Ola de crímenes es una recopilación de cuentos y artículos aparecidos en la revista GQ. En ella, James Ellroy, presenta al lector unas crónicas intimistas de la ciudad de Los Ángeles, a través de un estilo directo y a veces brutal.
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You wouldn't expect slick GQ to perform the greatest magazine service to hard-boiled crime writing since the heyday of Black Mask, but the evidence is before your eyes: Crime Wave, James Ellroy's collected GQ works circa 1993-99.

Though Crime Wave contains two stories in the exhilaratingly sleazy voice of the fictitious scandal rag Hush-Hush, and the novella-length "Hollywood Shakedown," a tale of sex, drugs, and murder starring '50s crooner-accordionist Dick Contino, the book is predominantly nonfiction. There's one flavorful piece, "Bad Boys in Tinseltown," about the day in 1967 when Ellroy--then a speed freak who broke into fancy houses to steal stuff and sniff women's underwear--read an article by Curtis Hanson raving about Bonnie and Clyde and was inspired. Then Ellroy flashes forward to 1996, when he visits Hanson as he directs the triumphant film version of L.A. Confidential.

GQ talked Ellroy into writing about the event that made him a maniac, and then an obsessive writer: his dissolute mother's unsolved murder in 1958, when he was 10. His investigation of her death began with the chilling GQ article "My Mother's Killer," which grew into the book My Dark Places. (If you haven't heard Ellroy read it on audiotape, you haven't shivered.) His investigation of another woman's murder, "Body Dumps," is in some ways better, because there's a suspect to eviscerate in prose. "Sex, Glitz, and Greed," written about O.J. during the trial, is an odd fit in this collection, but when Ellroy is on his own turf--L.A.'s seamy, undead past--nobody can touch him. --Tim Appelo

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An anthology of news reportage and fiction on crime in Los Angeles. Included are My Mother's Killer, a story that served as the basis for the book, My Dark Places, and a piece on the filming of L.A. Confidential.

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