Littérature

• 

  Ma part d'ombre

  James Ellroy

  • Rivages
  • Rivages Noir
  • 10 Mars 1999
  • 9782743604677

  Ma part d'ombre est le récit d'une double enquête que mène ellroy sur l'assassinat de sa mère, tuée le 22 juin 1958, et sur sa propre vie d'enfant orphelin, d'adolescent perturbé et d'écrivain hanté.
  Voyage à travers ses souvenirs les plus secrets, ce livre est aussi un reportage sur le crime en amérique, et en particulier les meurtres de femmes, d'autant plus saisissant qu'ellroy a travaillé aux côtés d'un policier de la brigade criminelle de los angeles, bill stoner, qui a tissé des liens de plus en plus forts avec l'auteur au fil des mois.
  

  Poche 10.65 €

  Sur commande

  Choisir une librairie

• 

  THE BLACK DAHLIA

  James Ellroy

  • Windmill Books
  • 1 Juin 2011
  • 9780099537861

  A neo-noir crime novel from the legendary crime novelist James Ellroy. Los Angeles, 15th January 1947: a beautiful young woman walked into the night and met her horrific destiny. Two cops are caught up in the investigation and embark on a hellish journey that takes them to the core of the dead girl's twisted life...
  

  Poche N.C.

  Livre étranger - Contacter votre libraire

  vous souhaitez plus de renseignement sur cet article
  contactez-nous

• 

  THIS STORM

  James Ellroy

  • Windmill Books
  • 1 Mars 2020
  • 9780099537779

  ________________________ 'Ellroy writes with raw power ... undeniably one of the most influential crime writers of our time' THE TIMES 'a tangled fever-dream ... Ellroy offers a grandiose, Wagnerian vision of wartime LA' SUNDAY TIMES ________________________ A brilliant historical crime novel, set in Los Angeles and Mexico during the pulse-pounding aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
  
  January, '42. L.A. reels behind the shock of Pearl Harbor. Local Japanese are rounded up and slammed behind bars. Massive thunderstorms hit the city. A body is unearthed in Griffith Park.
  
  The cops tag it a routine dead-man job. They're wrong. It's an early-warning signal of Chaos.
  
  There's a murderous fire and a gold heist exploding out of the past. There's Fifth Column treason - at this moment, on American soil. There are homegrown Nazis, commies and race racketeers. There's two dead cops in a dive off the jazz-club strip. And three men and one woman have a hot date with History.
  
  Elmer Jackson is a corrupt Vice cop. He's a flesh peddler and a bagman for the L.A. Chief of Police. Hideo Ashida is a crime-lab whiz, lashed by anti-Japanese rage. Dudley Smith is a PD hardnose working Army Intelligence. He's gone rogue and gone all-the-way fascist. Joan Conville was born rogue. She's a defrocked Navy lieutenant and a war profiteer to her core.
  
  L.A., '42. Homefront madness ascendant. Early-wartime inferno - This Storm is James Ellroy's most audacious novel yet. It is by turns savage, tender, elegiac. It lays bare and celebrates crazed Americans of all stripes.
  ________________________ 'Epic crime writing from a master' DAILY MAIL 'Ellroy is unique. There is nobody writing this way ... Nobody has done or is doing what he is doing' BOOKMUNCH
  Lire la suite Fermer

  Poche N.C.

  Livre étranger - Contacter votre libraire

  Indisponible

  vous souhaitez plus de renseignement sur cet article
  contactez-nous

• 

  Big Nowhere

  James Ellroy

  • Cornerstone
  • 1 Juin 2011
  • 9780099537878

  New Year's Eve as 1949 turns to 1950, Los Angeles: The City of Angels has becomes the city of the Angel of Death. Communist witch-hunts and insanely violent killings are terrorising the community. Three men are plunged into a maelstrom of violence and deceit when their lives become inextricably linked as each one confronts his personal darkness.
  

  Grand format N.C.

  Livre étranger - Contacter votre libraire

  Indisponible

  vous souhaitez plus de renseignement sur cet article
  contactez-nous

• 

  James Ellroy, les archives du LAPD

  James Ellroy

  • Fantask
  • 16 Septembre 2016
  • 9782374940076

  1953 : l'année la plus sanglante dans l'histoire de la police de Los Angeles (LAPD).
  Dans ce texte inédit, le grand James Ellroy restitue cette époque si particulière, commentant des images d'archives macabres et fascinantes.
  Quand la sombre réalité dépasse la fiction la plus noire.
  

  Grand format 9.99 €

  Épuisé

• 

  MY DARK PLACES

  James Ellroy

  • Windmill Books
  • 9 Septembre 2010
  • 9780099537847

  America's greatest crime writer investigates his mother's murder. On 21 June 1958, Geneva Hilliker Ellroy left her home in California. She was found strangled the next day. Her ten year-old son James had been with her estranged husband all weekend and was informed of her death on his return. Her murderer was never found, but her death had an enduring effect on her son - he spent his teens and early adult years as a wino, petty burglar and derelict.
  
  Only later, through his obsession with crime fiction, triggered by his mother's murder, did Ellroy begin to delve into his past. Shortly after the publication of his groundbreaking novel WHITE JAZZ, he determined to return to Los Angeles and, with the help of veteran detective Bill Stoner, attempt to solve the 38-year-old killing.
  
  The result is one of the few classics of crime non-fiction and autobiography to appear in the last few decades; a hypnotic trip to America's underbelly and one man's tortured soul.
  Lire la suite Fermer

  Poche N.C.

  Livre étranger - Contacter votre libraire

  Indisponible

  vous souhaitez plus de renseignement sur cet article
  contactez-nous

• 

  This Storm (Second La Quartet 2)

  James Ellroy

  • Random House Us
  • 30 Mai 2020
  • 9780593082805

  A massive novel of World War II Los Angeles. The crowning work of an American master. It is January, 1942. Torrential rainstorms hit L.A. A body is unearthed in Griffith Park. The cops rate it a routine dead-man job. They're grievously wrong. It's a summons to misalliance and all the spoils of a brand-new war.
  

  Grand format N.C.

  Livre étranger - Contacter votre libraire

  vous souhaitez plus de renseignement sur cet article
  contactez-nous

• 

  The hilliker curse ; my pursuit of women

  James Ellroy

  9780099537854

  Describes the author's shattered childhood, his delinquent teens, his writing life, his love affairs and marriages, his nervous breakdown and the beginning of a relationship with an extraordinary woman who may just be the long-sought Her.
  

  Poche 16.40 €

  Indisponible