· Perfidia represents new depth, scope, and craftsmanship in [his] canon. It is his finest work.” —Austin Chronicle “Ellroy successfully spins a drug-alcohol-and-nefarious-deeds-fueled wartime web of double-dealing betrayal, insidious activities, and gruesome atrocitiesBrand: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Perfidia is a novel of astonishments. It is World War II as you have never seen it, and Los Angeles as James Ellroy has never written it before. Here, he gives us the party at the edge of the abyss and the precipice of America's ascendance. Perfidia is that moment, spellbindingly captured. It beckons us to solve a great crime that, in its turn, explicates the crime of war itself. · The police are not knights, they’re occupiers, and in “Perfidia,” Ellroy comes closer than ever to making the case that he writes alt-histories not of the Los Angeles police but of the Los Estimated Reading Time: 9 mins.
JAMES ELLROY: I heard "Perfidia" is a big band tune. It was -- you told me in the green room, it was translated by a man named Gonzalvez, I think it was written by a Latin American, as well. It's been covered at least 16 trillion times. You and I would guess first heard it in the s, early s, the Ventures, rock and roll electronic. James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in His L.A. Quartet novels—The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, and White Jazz—were international best www.doorway.ru novel American Tabloid was Time magazine's Best Book (fiction) of ; his memoir, My Dark Places, was a Time Best Book of the Year and a New York Times Notable Book for PERFIDIA. by James Ellroy ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 9, Though it pivots on the Pearl Harbor attack, this worm's-eye view from thoroughly corrupt Los Angeles is a war novel like no other. It's complicated, and the author (The Hilliker Curse, , etc.) wouldn't have it any other way. There's no telling the good guys from the bad in.
Perfidia is a historical romance and crime fiction novel by American author James Ellroy. Published in , it is the first novel in the second L.A. Quartet, referring to his four prior novels from the first L.A. Quartet. Perfidia was released September 9, Perfidia is a novel of astonishments. It is World War II as you have never seen it, and Los Angeles as James Ellroy has never written it before. Here, he gives us the party at the edge of the abyss and the precipice of America's ascendance. Perfidia is that moment, spellbindingly captured. It beckons us to solve a great crime that, in its turn, explicates the crime of war itself. Perfidia requires pages to deliver what might be the weakest story found in an Ellroy novel. The narrative is, predictably, intricate in the extreme. One might require two or even three re-readings to fully grasp how the plot unfurls.
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