In his well-known L.A. Quartet novels, Ellroy created a time and place with stunning power: late '40s and '50s Los Angeles, a black hole of crime, corruption, and obsessive sex. Here he gives us outtakes from that orbit . . . flashes from a brilliantly contained alternative universe.
In his well-known L.A. Quartet novels, Ellroy created a time and place with stunning power: late '40s and '50s Los Angeles, a black hole of crime, corruption, and obsessive sex. Here he gives us outtakes from that orbit . . . flashes from a brilliantly contained alternative universe.