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James Ellroy's great gift as a writer is his ability to view history from the bottom up. Appetites, he has shown us again and again--but especially in his L.A. Quartet of crime novels--are what drive human events: money, power, and sex lurk behind every headline, and to follow their trail is to expose a slippery umbilical cord of sleaze connecting high life to low life, ideological posturing to the fundamental hungers that define us all. Given this worldview, it was inevitable that Ellroy would come eventually to that paradigmatic tabloid moment in American history: the assassination of JFK. Forget Camelot, grassy knolls, and Oliver Stoneish righteous indignation: Ellroy's story reads like your typical office power struggle gone bad. At the center of it all are three extremely bent law-enforcement types: two FBI agents and an ex-L.A. cop turned CIA operative. The labyrinthine machinations that take these three through multiple coalitions involving JFK, RFK, J. Edgar Hoover, Howard Hughes, Jimmy Hoffa, various mobsters, and a few boatloads of anti-Castro Cubans are detailed in Ellroy's signature staccato style. His short sentences and shorter paragraphs read as if fueled by the Benzedrine that propels the central characters in their various moves and countermoves.
Narcotics of all kinds are omnipresent in Ellroy's books, but the most potent drug of all--the most energizing and the most debilitating--is always power. Writing about powerful people is difficult for a novelist who does it unflinchingly because power works against empathy. We never care about powerful characters with the same passion we care for those abused by power, but we are fascinated by them and feel the allure of their addiction. That's especially true here. It's as if Ellroy injects us with a mainline pop of the undiluted power that surges through the veins of his obsessed characters. Though he is thought of as a crime novelist, Ellroy is really a political novelist, and like the best of the breed, his work has no politics. Is his version of who killed JFK believable? Probably, but the real message behind this profoundly disturbing, utterly intoxicating book is how trivial a question that really is. Bill Ott -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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Critics either adored or abhorred Ellroy's last crime novel, White Jazz, for its gritty subject matter and "word jazz" prose. American Tabloid, a fictional examination of the conspiracy-to-end-all-conspiracies-the assassination of JFK -will contain more of the same.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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This is a cruel, strange, and brilliant book. To some degree, it doesn't matter how truthful it is -- the point is to massacre the myth structure of America, which the vicious Ellroy does with gusto. His characters are such scum as to be completely appaling but amazingly compelling. And yet there's this extremely vague sense of the writer's moral disgust that seems to make it enjoyable for me. People might think Ellroy is celebrating the characters in his rogues gallery, but I think he's tearing them down as much as building them up. Fabulous. --Thomas S. Roche is the editor of the Noirotica series.
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With this book James Ellroy jumps from the limitations of the L.A. cops and robbers scene to the grand stage of American political tragedy. This book, as complex, nervy, hard edged and fast paced as we have come to expect of him, tackles the JFK assassination with a cast of characters and a set of assumptions that, while perfectly plausible, paint a very unflattering portrait of America and its institutions.
His 'heros' are failed federal agents and excops. Their milieu is the world of unofficial power where the Mafia, the Cuban resistance movement, the CIA, FBI, businessmen (Howard Hughes) and government officials all intersect in a boiling stew of competing agendas and disastrous subtrafuges. The result is a multifaceted plot that mingles elements of coincidence, accident and outright conspiracy to explain the assassination of JFK. The story is ugly and absolutely believeable. There is no attempt to pretend that this is history. Lots of history is ignored here for the sake of a clear human story, but the result is a very rich, many layered story of corrupt, corruptable and corrupting men whose limited ambitions and actions result in the killing of the president.
Over the years James Ellroy has turned into one of the great, true voices of the darker side of American life. No other story has given him such free reign to express his talent as does this one. A real achievement and a head spinning experience.
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A fantastic book, detailing the events leading upto the death of JFK. Ellroys style is unique, aggressive and insightful. His characters ooze with charisma, as he portrays the inner workings of Americas aggencies that stink with corruption. Violence is not rare; neither his obvious gift for this genre. A great read. Highly recommended.
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Chandler ist besser
Ich habe des öfteren gelesen das Ellroy mit Chandler verglichen wird. Das stimmt zum Teil, zum Teil aber nicht. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 18. Juli 2001 veröffentlicht
Good but just misses greatness
Ellroy is certainly a master of his medium - that is never in dispute. However, this book is in daanger of losing the reader with all of the subplots and supporting characters. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 13. Juli 2000 von Warris
Epic, brilliant
Without question, this novel is finest thing Ellroy has given us to date. His version of history seems more accurate than what is printed in the history books. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 13. Juli 2000 veröffentlicht
Perfect title
It reads like a long tabloid. I've never read any of Ellroy's books but I liked the movie LA Confidential. I had seen a program featuring Ellroy and didn't think much of him... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 16. Juni 2000 von "jas-webb"
American history - Ellroy style
"American Tabloid" left me ambivalent. It moves jaggedly between greatness and mediocrity, two qualities which seem to offset one another proportionately throughtout the... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 7. Juni 2000 veröffentlicht
That style...!
Ellroy's style is not original, but paradoxically enough... it's unique. The prose here suggest Burroughs, Ginsberg, Kesey, Hemingway, Crane, and Henry James. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 6. Juni 2000 von Carlos R. Pastrana
Camelot Debunked !
Decimated! Defoliated! Destroyed!...OK, maybe not. But Ellroy DOES provide an electric and wickedly entertaining alternate history to the Kennedy Years. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 8. April 2000 von "il853okg"
masterpiece
I read all of his books, so I was certainly aware of what Ellroy is capable of. But in my wildest dreams did I not expect that. Is it possible to top this? Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 21. März 2000 von bernd huss
Too much of a great thing
This one gets three stars for an Ellroy, though it would be four stars or more for most other writers. After his superb L.A. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 12. Januar 2000 von David J. Loftus
Brilliant and appalling
This is without a doubt one of the most horrid things that I have ever read. Three protaganists, an amoral undercover FBI agent, his weak guilt ridden colleague, and a huge and... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 11. Januar 2000 von J. B. Ingoldsby
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