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The Big Somewhere - Essays on James Ellroy's Noir World (Hardcover)
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The Big Somewhere - Essays on James Ellroy's Noir World (Hardcover)
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James Ellroy's identity as a crime writer is rooted in his
extraordinary life story and relationship with his home city of Los
Angeles. Beginning with the unsolved murder of his mother, Geneva
Hilliker Ellroy, in 1958, Ellroy's early life played a large role
in shaping his obsessions with murder, the criminal underworld of
L.A. and the redemptive power of the feminine. Ellroy's life could
be seen as a brutal, visceral and emotionally exhausting
realisation of the American Dream, a theme he has explored in his
writing to the extent that he is credited with reinventing crime
fiction. The Big Somewhere: Essays on James Ellroy's Noir World is
an in-depth, scholarly study of the work of James Ellroy, featuring
leading Ellroy scholars such as Anna Flugge, Jim Mancall and Rodney
Taveira. Moving from Ellroy's early detective novels to his later
epic works of historical fiction, it explores how Ellroy found his
place in the history of the genre by building on, and then
surpassing, the works of authors who influenced him such as
Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and Joseph Wambaugh. It also
examines Ellroy's impact on contemporary writers and on the
cultural perception of L.A., which has been his legacy through the
L.A. Quartet novels. The 'Big Somewhere' is not a geographical
location, but a conglomeration of the cinematic, historical and
fictional worlds that influenced Ellroy, from film noir to the
Kennedy era in American politics, and on which he, in turn, has
left his mark.
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