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| Original Title: | American Tabloid |
| ISBN: | 037572737X (ISBN13: 9780375727375) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Underworld USA #1 |
| Setting: | Dallas, Texas,1963(United States) Miami, Florida(United States) Washington, D.C.(United States) …more Los Angeles, California,1958(United States) …less |
| Literary Awards: | Deutscher Krimi Preis for 2. Platz International (1997) |
James Ellroy
Paperback | Pages: 592 pages Rating: 4.21 | 13887 Users | 799 Reviews
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We are behind, and below, the scenes of JFK's presidential election, the Bay of Pigs, the assassination—in the underworld that connects Miami, Los Angeles, Chicago, D.C....Where the CIA, the Mob, J. Edgar Hoover, Howard Hughes, Jimmy Hoffa, Cuban political exiles, and various loose cannons conspire in a covert anarchy...
Where the right drugs, the right amount of cash, the right murder, buys a moment of a man's loyalty...
Where three renegade law-enforcement officers—a former L.A. cop and two FBI agents—are shaping events with the virulence of their greed and hatred, riding full-blast shotgun into history....
James Ellroy's trademark nothing-spared rendering of reality, blistering language, and relentless narrative pace are here in electrifying abundance, put to work in a novel as shocking and daring as anything he's written: a secret history that zeroes in on a time still shrouded in secrets and blows it wide open.
Chosen by Time magazine as one of the ten best books of the year.
"Hard-bitten ... ingenious ... Ellroy segues into political intrigue without missing a beat." —The New York Times
"Vastly entertaining." —Los Angeles Times
"One hellishly exciting ride." —Detroit Free Press
"A supremely controlled work of art." —The New York Times Book Review
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| Title | : | American Tabloid (Underworld USA #1) |
| Author | : | James Ellroy |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 592 pages |
| Published | : | April 24th 2001 by Vintage/Random House (NY) (first published February 14th 1995) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Mystery. Crime. Historical. Historical Fiction. Noir. Thriller |
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Ratings: 4.21 From 13887 Users | 799 ReviewsCommentary About Books American Tabloid (Underworld USA #1)
James Ellroy has called me a panty sniffer to my face. Granted, he calls everyone at his book signings a variety of colorful names, but I still like the idea that Ive been personally mock-insulted by one of my favorite authors. This is his best novel, and my love for it is pretty much unconditional. As proof of my devotion: My internet alias is from a character in it, and Ive got an autographed copy of it sitting on my shelf along with an signed copy of the sequel, The Cold Six Thousand. TheHe used to pimp and pull shakedowns. Now he rode shotgun to History. Whoa, Ellroy's done it again: another 5-star read. So far, that's 5 out of 5 for me. This time, he takes his talent for weaving complex plots and conspiracies from his 50's Los Angeles setting and unleashes it nationwide in an epic re-shaping of the country's turbulent history between 1958 and 1963 as we follow three men who play pivotal roles in the events that ultimately lead to that infamous day in Dallas, Texas on
American Tabloid is the kind of no-holds-barred masterpiece that makes me want to buy extra copies and foist them on everyone I know. It's a complex, tangled epic with the propulsive pacing of the best thrillers and it somehow manages to move hundreds of characters through double- and triple-alliances and betrayals without losing track of who they are, what they're doing, and what they want. It has the weight of tragedy while simultaneously being a book that calls Jack Ruby a dog-fucker. In
Reprehensible and inept.The characters are almost entirely identical: They talk the same, they think the same, they all stumble through the plot in the same way: numb, cocksure, and without any discernible motivation for any of their actions. This book lacks even the cookie-cutter archetypes of a standard noir, which it so clearly wants to be. Instead, each character simply goes from crime to crime with no particular purpose. They are devoid of morals, but Ellroy has failed to give anything
This is a LONG read, loaded with umpteen characters and written in choppy, gumshoe detective language. The basic run down -this is a chronologically presented story of three characters who played a role in the eventual assassination of JFK.My curiosity about Jimmy Hoffa, Howard Hughes, J Edgar Hoover, the Mafia, the Cubans, and the government are what kept me reading, but the language and content was very much a throwback (read offensive). Here were lots of babes and their booberage, very
Reprehensible and inept.The characters are almost entirely identical: They talk the same, they think the same, they all stumble through the plot in the same way: numb, cocksure, and without any discernible motivation for any of their actions. This book lacks even the cookie-cutter archetypes of a standard noir, which it so clearly wants to be. Instead, each character simply goes from crime to crime with no particular purpose. They are devoid of morals, but Ellroy has failed to give anything
I just posted this but I was listening to the Fugs and this song should be the fucking theme to this book:Who can kill a general in his bed?Overthrow dictators if they're Red?Fucking A-man!CIA man!Who can buy a government so cheap?Change a cabinet without a squeak?Fucking A-man!CIA man!Who can train guerrillas by the dozens?Send them out to kill their untrained cousins?Fucking A-man!CIA man!Who can get a budget that's so great?Who will be the 51st state?Who has got the secret-est service?One
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