false 101008 <![CDATA[Hollywood Nocturnes]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171474687m/101008.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171474687s/101008.jpg Hollywood Nocturnes gives us an afterword and six stories set in the same crime-ridden, sex-crazed period of history of James Ellroy's L.A. Quartet novels (which include L.A. Confidential and The Big Nowhere).

Dig this: the swinging sax man's doing repos and plotting a kidnapping-of himself; a tommy gun is ripping apart windows, curtains, and bodies in High Darktown; a carhop at Scrivner's is keeping two extremely sweet sugar daddies, Howard Hughes and mobster Mickey Cohen, happy-until the scene turns murderous.

This is the hip-hop hard-edged world of L.A. 1950s style: cars with fins, Commies in closets, starmakers with come-ons, ex-cons with guns, and cops with mean streaks as wide as Sunset Strip.

James Ellroy's bizarre, stark tales dazzle us with their unexpected humor, raw brutality, and slightly lighter-than-usual noir realism. Hollywood Nocturnes is quintessential Ellroy: bluesy, black, and very, very hot.]]> 101008 8 528374 1994 Hollywood Nocturnes total:204|5:25|4:70|3:95|2:13|1:1| 204 717 269 8 2887 3.79 12001 1067 76473554 1129215 101008 0385333285 9780385333283 6 <![CDATA[Hollywood Nocturnes]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171474687m/101008.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171474687s/101008.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101008.Hollywood_Nocturnes 3.50 186 Hollywood Nocturnes gives us an afterword and six stories set in the same crime-ridden, sex-crazed period of history of James Ellroy's L.A. Quartet novels (which include L.A. Confidential and The Big Nowhere).

Dig this: the swinging sax man's doing repos and plotting a kidnapping-of himself; a tommy gun is ripping apart windows, curtains, and bodies in High Darktown; a carhop at Scrivner's is keeping two extremely sweet sugar daddies, Howard Hughes and mobster Mickey Cohen, happy-until the scene turns murderous.

This is the hip-hop hard-edged world of L.A. 1950s style: cars with fins, Commies in closets, starmakers with come-ons, ex-cons with guns, and cops with mean streaks as wide as Sunset Strip.

James Ellroy's bizarre, stark tales dazzle us with their unexpected humor, raw brutality, and slightly lighter-than-usual noir realism. Hollywood Nocturnes is quintessential Ellroy: bluesy, black, and very, very hot.]]> 1994 3 0 false Tue Nov 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 02 08:14:00 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 10 08:25:18 -0800 2009 63456091 2521968 541007 0307278794 9780307278791 1 <![CDATA[Hollywood Nocturnes]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/541007.Hollywood_Nocturnes 3.62 13 Hollywood Nocturnes shows us the seedy side of glamorous Hollywood, laid out like a corpse in the morgue.]]> 1994 0 0 false Tue Jul 14 11:10:29 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 14 11:10:29 -0700 2009 http://books.kenficara.com/2007/11/holly...]]> 10821325 559587 101008 0385333285 9780385333283 6 <![CDATA[Hollywood Nocturnes]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171474687m/101008.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171474687s/101008.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101008.Hollywood_Nocturnes 3.51 204 Hollywood Nocturnes gives us an afterword and six stories set in the same crime-ridden, sex-crazed period of history of James Ellroy's L.A. Quartet novels (which include L.A. Confidential and The Big Nowhere).

Dig this: the swinging sax man's doing repos and plotting a kidnapping-of himself; a tommy gun is ripping apart windows, curtains, and bodies in High Darktown; a carhop at Scrivner's is keeping two extremely sweet sugar daddies, Howard Hughes and mobster Mickey Cohen, happy-until the scene turns murderous.

This is the hip-hop hard-edged world of L.A. 1950s style: cars with fins, Commies in closets, starmakers with come-ons, ex-cons with guns, and cops with mean streaks as wide as Sunset Strip.

James Ellroy's bizarre, stark tales dazzle us with their unexpected humor, raw brutality, and slightly lighter-than-usual noir realism. Hollywood Nocturnes is quintessential Ellroy: bluesy, black, and very, very hot.]]> 1994 4 0 false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Fri Dec 21 10:21:20 -0800 2007 Wed Jan 02 17:38:41 -0800 2008 Raymond Chandler's Marlowe is almost too intelligent, smooth, honorable and witty for his own good, Ellroy's heroes are compromised, misogynistic, perverted and just kind of assholes. I loved it. "Dial AXE-6400" was thrilling to the core. A great, great read. I take one star away b...more...]]> 24286535 1164494 101008 0385333285 9780385333283 6 <![CDATA[Hollywood Nocturnes]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171474687m/101008.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171474687s/101008.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101008.Hollywood_Nocturnes 3.51 204 Hollywood Nocturnes gives us an afterword and six stories set in the same crime-ridden, sex-crazed period of history of James Ellroy's L.A. Quartet novels (which include L.A. Confidential and The Big Nowhere).

Dig this: the swinging sax man's doing repos and plotting a kidnapping-of himself; a tommy gun is ripping apart windows, curtains, and bodies in High Darktown; a carhop at Scrivner's is keeping two extremely sweet sugar daddies, Howard Hughes and mobster Mickey Cohen, happy-until the scene turns murderous.

This is the hip-hop hard-edged world of L.A. 1950s style: cars with fins, Commies in closets, starmakers with come-ons, ex-cons with guns, and cops with mean streaks as wide as Sunset Strip.

James Ellroy's bizarre, stark tales dazzle us with their unexpected humor, raw brutality, and slightly lighter-than-usual noir realism. Hollywood Nocturnes is quintessential Ellroy: bluesy, black, and very, very hot.]]> 1994 3 0 false Mon Sep 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 11 19:23:48 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 15 16:24:37 -0700 2008 22066245 419386 101008 0385333285 9780385333283 6 <![CDATA[Hollywood Nocturnes]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171474687m/101008.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171474687s/101008.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101008.Hollywood_Nocturnes 3.51 204 Hollywood Nocturnes gives us an afterword and six stories set in the same crime-ridden, sex-crazed period of history of James Ellroy's L.A. Quartet novels (which include L.A. Confidential and The Big Nowhere).

Dig this: the swinging sax man's doing repos and plotting a kidnapping-of himself; a tommy gun is ripping apart windows, curtains, and bodies in High Darktown; a carhop at Scrivner's is keeping two extremely sweet sugar daddies, Howard Hughes and mobster Mickey Cohen, happy-until the scene turns murderous.

This is the hip-hop hard-edged world of L.A. 1950s style: cars with fins, Commies in closets, starmakers with come-ons, ex-cons with guns, and cops with mean streaks as wide as Sunset Strip.

James Ellroy's bizarre, stark tales dazzle us with their unexpected humor, raw brutality, and slightly lighter-than-usual noir realism. Hollywood Nocturnes is quintessential Ellroy: bluesy, black, and very, very hot.]]> 1994 2 0 false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon May 12 07:37:30 -0700 2008 Mon May 12 07:43:56 -0700 2008 364733 34033 101008 0385333285 9780385333283 6 <![CDATA[Hollywood Nocturnes]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171474687m/101008.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171474687s/101008.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101008.Hollywood_Nocturnes 3.51 204 Hollywood Nocturnes gives us an afterword and six stories set in the same crime-ridden, sex-crazed period of history of James Ellroy's L.A. Quartet novels (which include L.A. Confidential and The Big Nowhere).

Dig this: the swinging sax man's doing repos and plotting a kidnapping-of himself; a tommy gun is ripping apart windows, curtains, and bodies in High Darktown; a carhop at Scrivner's is keeping two extremely sweet sugar daddies, Howard Hughes and mobster Mickey Cohen, happy-until the scene turns murderous.

This is the hip-hop hard-edged world of L.A. 1950s style: cars with fins, Commies in closets, starmakers with come-ons, ex-cons with guns, and cops with mean streaks as wide as Sunset Strip.

James Ellroy's bizarre, stark tales dazzle us with their unexpected humor, raw brutality, and slightly lighter-than-usual noir realism. Hollywood Nocturnes is quintessential Ellroy: bluesy, black, and very, very hot.]]> 1994 3 0 false Wed Mar 21 11:04:30 -0700 2007 Mon Jun 04 12:44:10 -0700 2007 12323119 774638 101008 0385333285 9780385333283 6 <![CDATA[Hollywood Nocturnes]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171474687m/101008.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171474687s/101008.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101008.Hollywood_Nocturnes 3.51 204 Hollywood Nocturnes gives us an afterword and six stories set in the same crime-ridden, sex-crazed period of history of James Ellroy's L.A. Quartet novels (which include L.A. Confidential and The Big Nowhere).

Dig this: the swinging sax man's doing repos and plotting a kidnapping-of himself; a tommy gun is ripping apart windows, curtains, and bodies in High Darktown; a carhop at Scrivner's is keeping two extremely sweet sugar daddies, Howard Hughes and mobster Mickey Cohen, happy-until the scene turns murderous.

This is the hip-hop hard-edged world of L.A. 1950s style: cars with fins, Commies in closets, starmakers with come-ons, ex-cons with guns, and cops with mean streaks as wide as Sunset Strip.

James Ellroy's bizarre, stark tales dazzle us with their unexpected humor, raw brutality, and slightly lighter-than-usual noir realism. Hollywood Nocturnes is quintessential Ellroy: bluesy, black, and very, very hot.]]> 1994 5 0 false Sat Jan 12 08:30:09 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 12 08:31:24 -0800 2008 37333403 1551688 1134752 044022098X 9780440220985 1 <![CDATA[Hollywood Nocturnes]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181267434m/1134752.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181267434s/1134752.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1134752.Hollywood_Nocturnes 3.67 3 Hollywood Nocturnes gives us an afterword and six stories set in the same crime-ridden, sex-crazed period of history of James Ellroy's L.A. Quartet novels (which include L.A. Confidential and The Big Nowhere).

Dig this: the swinging sax man's doing repos and plotting a kidnapping-of himself; a tommy gun is ripping apart windows, curtains, and bodies in High Darktown; a carhop at Scrivner's is keeping two extremely sweet sugar daddies, Howard Hughes and mobster Mickey Cohen, happy-until the scene turns murderous.

This is the hip-hop hard-edged world of L.A. 1950s style: cars with fins, Commies in closets, starmakers with come-ons, ex-cons with guns, and cops with mean streaks as wide as Sunset Strip.

James Ellroy's bizarre, stark tales dazzle us with their unexpected humor, raw brutality, and slightly lighter-than-usual noir realism. Hollywood Nocturnes is quintessential Ellroy: bluesy, black, and very, very hot.]]> 1994 0 0 false Mon Nov 10 10:30:58 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 10 10:30:58 -0800 2008 81584131 263257 101008 0385333285 9780385333283 6 <![CDATA[Hollywood Nocturnes]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171474687m/101008.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171474687s/101008.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101008.Hollywood_Nocturnes 3.51 204 Hollywood Nocturnes gives us an afterword and six stories set in the same crime-ridden, sex-crazed period of history of James Ellroy's L.A. Quartet novels (which include L.A. Confidential and The Big Nowhere).

Dig this: the swinging sax man's doing repos and plotting a kidnapping-of himself; a tommy gun is ripping apart windows, curtains, and bodies in High Darktown; a carhop at Scrivner's is keeping two extremely sweet sugar daddies, Howard Hughes and mobster Mickey Cohen, happy-until the scene turns murderous.

This is the hip-hop hard-edged world of L.A. 1950s style: cars with fins, Commies in closets, starmakers with come-ons, ex-cons with guns, and cops with mean streaks as wide as Sunset Strip.

James Ellroy's bizarre, stark tales dazzle us with their unexpected humor, raw brutality, and slightly lighter-than-usual noir realism. Hollywood Nocturnes is quintessential Ellroy: bluesy, black, and very, very hot.]]> 1994 3 0 false Sun Dec 20 13:39:44 -0800 2009 Sun Dec 20 13:39:44 -0800 2009 80904457 628060 101008 0385333285 9780385333283 6 <![CDATA[Hollywood Nocturnes]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171474687m/101008.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171474687s/101008.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101008.Hollywood_Nocturnes 3.51 204 Hollywood Nocturnes gives us an afterword and six stories set in the same crime-ridden, sex-crazed period of history of James Ellroy's L.A. Quartet novels (which include L.A. Confidential and The Big Nowhere).

Dig this: the swinging sax man's doing repos and plotting a kidnapping-of himself; a tommy gun is ripping apart windows, curtains, and bodies in High Darktown; a carhop at Scrivner's is keeping two extremely sweet sugar daddies, Howard Hughes and mobster Mickey Cohen, happy-until the scene turns murderous.

This is the hip-hop hard-edged world of L.A. 1950s style: cars with fins, Commies in closets, starmakers with come-ons, ex-cons with guns, and cops with mean streaks as wide as Sunset Strip.

James Ellroy's bizarre, stark tales dazzle us with their unexpected humor, raw brutality, and slightly lighter-than-usual noir realism. Hollywood Nocturnes is quintessential Ellroy: bluesy, black, and very, very hot.]]> 1994 4 0 false Sun Dec 13 17:51:51 -0800 2009 Sun Dec 13 17:51:51 -0800 2009 79098266 692190 101008 0385333285 9780385333283 6 <![CDATA[Hollywood Nocturnes]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171474687m/101008.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171474687s/101008.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101008.Hollywood_Nocturnes 3.51 204 Hollywood Nocturnes gives us an afterword and six stories set in the same crime-ridden, sex-crazed period of history of James Ellroy's L.A. Quartet novels (which include L.A. Confidential and The Big Nowhere).

Dig this: the swinging sax man's doing repos and plotting a kidnapping-of himself; a tommy gun is ripping apart windows, curtains, and bodies in High Darktown; a carhop at Scrivner's is keeping two extremely sweet sugar daddies, Howard Hughes and mobster Mickey Cohen, happy-until the scene turns murderous.

This is the hip-hop hard-edged world of L.A. 1950s style: cars with fins, Commies in closets, starmakers with come-ons, ex-cons with guns, and cops with mean streaks as wide as Sunset Strip.

James Ellroy's bizarre, stark tales dazzle us with their unexpected humor, raw brutality, and slightly lighter-than-usual noir realism. Hollywood Nocturnes is quintessential Ellroy: bluesy, black, and very, very hot.]]> 1994 3 0 false Sat Nov 28 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 27 01:22:20 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 28 00:15:20 -0800 2009 79059241 2936255 101008 0385333285 9780385333283 6 <![CDATA[Hollywood Nocturnes]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171474687m/101008.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171474687s/101008.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101008.Hollywood_Nocturnes 3.51 204 Hollywood Nocturnes gives us an afterword and six stories set in the same crime-ridden, sex-crazed period of history of James Ellroy's L.A. Quartet novels (which include L.A. Confidential and The Big Nowhere).

Dig this: the swinging sax man's doing repos and plotting a kidnapping-of himself; a tommy gun is ripping apart windows, curtains, and bodies in High Darktown; a carhop at Scrivner's is keeping two extremely sweet sugar daddies, Howard Hughes and mobster Mickey Cohen, happy-until the scene turns murderous.

This is the hip-hop hard-edged world of L.A. 1950s style: cars with fins, Commies in closets, starmakers with come-ons, ex-cons with guns, and cops with mean streaks as wide as Sunset Strip.

James Ellroy's bizarre, stark tales dazzle us with their unexpected humor, raw brutality, and slightly lighter-than-usual noir realism. Hollywood Nocturnes is quintessential Ellroy: bluesy, black, and very, very hot.]]> 1994 4 0 false Thu Nov 26 12:45:12 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 26 12:45:12 -0800 2009 78590975 2952490 101008 0385333285 9780385333283 6 <![CDATA[Hollywood Nocturnes]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171474687m/101008.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171474687s/101008.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101008.Hollywood_Nocturnes 3.51 204 Hollywood Nocturnes gives us an afterword and six stories set in the same crime-ridden, sex-crazed period of history of James Ellroy's L.A. Quartet novels (which include L.A. Confidential and The Big Nowhere).

Dig this: the swinging sax man's doing repos and plotting a kidnapping-of himself; a tommy gun is ripping apart windows, curtains, and bodies in High Darktown; a carhop at Scrivner's is keeping two extremely sweet sugar daddies, Howard Hughes and mobster Mickey Cohen, happy-until the scene turns murderous.

This is the hip-hop hard-edged world of L.A. 1950s style: cars with fins, Commies in closets, starmakers with come-ons, ex-cons with guns, and cops with mean streaks as wide as Sunset Strip.

James Ellroy's bizarre, stark tales dazzle us with their unexpected humor, raw brutality, and slightly lighter-than-usual noir realism. Hollywood Nocturnes is quintessential Ellroy: bluesy, black, and very, very hot.]]> 1994 3 0 false Sat Nov 21 19:46:40 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 21 19:46:40 -0800 2009 78286725 2959676 101008 0385333285 9780385333283 6 <![CDATA[Hollywood Nocturnes]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171474687m/101008.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171474687s/101008.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101008.Hollywood_Nocturnes 3.51 204 Hollywood Nocturnes gives us an afterword and six stories set in the same crime-ridden, sex-crazed period of history of James Ellroy's L.A. Quartet novels (which include L.A. Confidential and The Big Nowhere).

Dig this: the swinging sax man's doing repos and plotting a kidnapping-of himself; a tommy gun is ripping apart windows, curtains, and bodies in High Darktown; a carhop at Scrivner's is keeping two extremely sweet sugar daddies, Howard Hughes and mobster Mickey Cohen, happy-until the scene turns murderous.

This is the hip-hop hard-edged world of L.A. 1950s style: cars with fins, Commies in closets, starmakers with come-ons, ex-cons with guns, and cops with mean streaks as wide as Sunset Strip.

James Ellroy's bizarre, stark tales dazzle us with their unexpected humor, raw brutality, and slightly lighter-than-usual noir realism. Hollywood Nocturnes is quintessential Ellroy: bluesy, black, and very, very hot.]]> 1994 3 0 false Wed Nov 18 23:12:18 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 18 23:12:18 -0800 2009 78103404 2775442 101008 0385333285 9780385333283 6 <![CDATA[Hollywood Nocturnes]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171474687m/101008.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171474687s/101008.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101008.Hollywood_Nocturnes 3.51 204 Hollywood Nocturnes gives us an afterword and six stories set in the same crime-ridden, sex-crazed period of history of James Ellroy's L.A. Quartet novels (which include L.A. Confidential and The Big Nowhere).

Dig this: the swinging sax man's doing repos and plotting a kidnapping-of himself; a tommy gun is ripping apart windows, curtains, and bodies in High Darktown; a carhop at Scrivner's is keeping two extremely sweet sugar daddies, Howard Hughes and mobster Mickey Cohen, happy-until the scene turns murderous.

This is the hip-hop hard-edged world of L.A. 1950s style: cars with fins, Commies in closets, starmakers with come-ons, ex-cons with guns, and cops with mean streaks as wide as Sunset Strip.

James Ellroy's bizarre, stark tales dazzle us with their unexpected humor, raw brutality, and slightly lighter-than-usual noir realism. Hollywood Nocturnes is quintessential Ellroy: bluesy, black, and very, very hot.]]> 1994 3 0 false Tue Nov 17 12:10:05 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 17 12:10:05 -0800 2009 77759575 2943406 101008 0385333285 9780385333283 6 <![CDATA[Hollywood Nocturnes]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171474687m/101008.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171474687s/101008.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101008.Hollywood_Nocturnes 3.51 204 Hollywood Nocturnes gives us an afterword and six stories set in the same crime-ridden, sex-crazed period of history of James Ellroy's L.A. Quartet novels (which include L.A. Confidential and The Big Nowhere).

Dig this: the swinging sax man's doing repos and plotting a kidnapping-of himself; a tommy gun is ripping apart windows, curtains, and bodies in High Darktown; a carhop at Scrivner's is keeping two extremely sweet sugar daddies, Howard Hughes and mobster Mickey Cohen, happy-until the scene turns murderous.

This is the hip-hop hard-edged world of L.A. 1950s style: cars with fins, Commies in closets, starmakers with come-ons, ex-cons with guns, and cops with mean streaks as wide as Sunset Strip.

James Ellroy's bizarre, stark tales dazzle us with their unexpected humor, raw brutality, and slightly lighter-than-usual noir realism. Hollywood Nocturnes is quintessential Ellroy: bluesy, black, and very, very hot.]]> 1994 4 0 false Sat Nov 14 10:27:53 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 14 10:27:53 -0800 2009 77685363 1699478 101008 0385333285 9780385333283 6 <![CDATA[Hollywood Nocturnes]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171474687m/101008.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171474687s/101008.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101008.Hollywood_Nocturnes 3.51 204 Hollywood Nocturnes gives us an afterword and six stories set in the same crime-ridden, sex-crazed period of history of James Ellroy's L.A. Quartet novels (which include L.A. Confidential and The Big Nowhere).

Dig this: the swinging sax man's doing repos and plotting a kidnapping-of himself; a tommy gun is ripping apart windows, curtains, and bodies in High Darktown; a carhop at Scrivner's is keeping two extremely sweet sugar daddies, Howard Hughes and mobster Mickey Cohen, happy-until the scene turns murderous.

This is the hip-hop hard-edged world of L.A. 1950s style: cars with fins, Commies in closets, starmakers with come-ons, ex-cons with guns, and cops with mean streaks as wide as Sunset Strip.

James Ellroy's bizarre, stark tales dazzle us with their unexpected humor, raw brutality, and slightly lighter-than-usual noir realism. Hollywood Nocturnes is quintessential Ellroy: bluesy, black, and very, very hot.]]> 1994 4 0 false Fri Nov 13 14:52:17 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 13 14:52:17 -0800 2009 77655498 2940523 101008 0385333285 9780385333283 6 <![CDATA[Hollywood Nocturnes]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171474687m/101008.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171474687s/101008.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101008.Hollywood_Nocturnes 3.51 204 Hollywood Nocturnes gives us an afterword and six stories set in the same crime-ridden, sex-crazed period of history of James Ellroy's L.A. Quartet novels (which include L.A. Confidential and The Big Nowhere).

Dig this: the swinging sax man's doing repos and plotting a kidnapping-of himself; a tommy gun is ripping apart windows, curtains, and bodies in High Darktown; a carhop at Scrivner's is keeping two extremely sweet sugar daddies, Howard Hughes and mobster Mickey Cohen, happy-until the scene turns murderous.

This is the hip-hop hard-edged world of L.A. 1950s style: cars with fins, Commies in closets, starmakers with come-ons, ex-cons with guns, and cops with mean streaks as wide as Sunset Strip.

James Ellroy's bizarre, stark tales dazzle us with their unexpected humor, raw brutality, and slightly lighter-than-usual noir realism. Hollywood Nocturnes is quintessential Ellroy: bluesy, black, and very, very hot.]]> 1994 5 0 false Fri Nov 13 10:20:18 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 13 10:20:18 -0800 2009 77375626 2930238 101008 0385333285 9780385333283 6 <![CDATA[Hollywood Nocturnes]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171474687m/101008.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171474687s/101008.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101008.Hollywood_Nocturnes 3.51 204 Hollywood Nocturnes gives us an afterword and six stories set in the same crime-ridden, sex-crazed period of history of James Ellroy's L.A. Quartet novels (which include L.A. Confidential and The Big Nowhere).

Dig this: the swinging sax man's doing repos and plotting a kidnapping-of himself; a tommy gun is ripping apart windows, curtains, and bodies in High Darktown; a carhop at Scrivner's is keeping two extremely sweet sugar daddies, Howard Hughes and mobster Mickey Cohen, happy-until the scene turns murderous.

This is the hip-hop hard-edged world of L.A. 1950s style: cars with fins, Commies in closets, starmakers with come-ons, ex-cons with guns, and cops with mean streaks as wide as Sunset Strip.

James Ellroy's bizarre, stark tales dazzle us with their unexpected humor, raw brutality, and slightly lighter-than-usual noir realism. Hollywood Nocturnes is quintessential Ellroy: bluesy, black, and very, very hot.]]> 1994 3 0 false Tue Nov 10 17:02:57 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 10 17:02:57 -0800 2009 76692540 1473087 101008 0385333285 9780385333283 6 <![CDATA[Hollywood Nocturnes]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171474687m/101008.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171474687s/101008.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101008.Hollywood_Nocturnes 3.51 204 Hollywood Nocturnes gives us an afterword and six stories set in the same crime-ridden, sex-crazed period of history of James Ellroy's L.A. Quartet novels (which include L.A. Confidential and The Big Nowhere).

Dig this: the swinging sax man's doing repos and plotting a kidnapping-of himself; a tommy gun is ripping apart windows, curtains, and bodies in High Darktown; a carhop at Scrivner's is keeping two extremely sweet sugar daddies, Howard Hughes and mobster Mickey Cohen, happy-until the scene turns murderous.

This is the hip-hop hard-edged world of L.A. 1950s style: cars with fins, Commies in closets, starmakers with come-ons, ex-cons with guns, and cops with mean streaks as wide as Sunset Strip.

James Ellroy's bizarre, stark tales dazzle us with their unexpected humor, raw brutality, and slightly lighter-than-usual noir realism. Hollywood Nocturnes is quintessential Ellroy: bluesy, black, and very, very hot.]]> 1994 4 0 false Wed Nov 04 08:35:29 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 04 08:35:29 -0800 2009 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=101008