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The Big Nowhere

The Big Nowhere

A Crime Novel
CrimeMystery
Pages
406
Published
1988
Language
English

Synopsis

In the second installment of James Ellroy's L.A. Quartet, three distinct men find themselves entangled in a dark conspiracy. Set against the backdrop of 1950s Los Angeles, this novel explores a world of ambition, perversion, and deep-seated deceit. It offers a stark and vivid look at a city grappling with its own shadows.

Prose complexity
7/10

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DarkGrittyTenseThought-Provoking
Morally GreyBetrayalMultiple POVs

Genres

Crime Mystery Hardboiled

About the author

J
James Ellroy

Lee Earle "James" Ellroy is an American crime fiction writer and essayist. Ellroy has become known for a telegrammatic prose style in his most recent work, wherein he frequently omits connecting words and uses only short, staccato sentences, and in particular for the novels The Black Dahlia (1987), The Big Nowhere (1988), L.A. Confidential (1990), White Jazz (1992), American Tabloid (1995), The Cold Six Thousand (2001), and Blood's a Rover (2009). -- Wikipedia

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