Hollywood Nocturnes【電子書籍】[ James Ellroy ]

＜p＞Set in Los Angeles from 1947 to 1959, ＜em＞Hollywood Nocturnes＜/em＞ 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 ＜em＞L.A. Confidential＜/em＞ and ＜em＞The Big Nowhere＜/em＞).＜/p＞ ＜p＞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.＜/p＞ ＜p＞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.＜/p＞ ＜p＞James Ellroy's bizarre, stark tales dazzle us with their unexpected humor, raw brutality, and slightly lighter-than-usual noir realism. ＜em＞Hollywood Nocturnes＜/em＞ is quintessential Ellroy: bluesy, bla．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る