|
||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||
L.A. Noir
und über 1 Million weitere Bücher verfügbar für Amazon Kindle .
Erfahren Sie mehr
| ||||||||||||||||||||
 Gutschein erhalten
Tauschen Sie jetzt L.A. Noir. The Lloyd Hopkins Trilogy. gegen einen Amazon-Gutschein in Höhe von EUR 0,25 ein - einlösbar für Tausende von Artikeln bei Amazon.de. Entdecken Sie mehr eintauschbare Bücher im Bücher Trade-In Shop. Bitte beachten Sie die Teilnahmebedingungen.
 Jetzt für Amazon Student anmelden und um 20% erhöhten Eintauschwert sichern. |
Wird oft zusammen gekauft
Produktinformation
Möchten Sie die Produktinformationen aktualisieren oder Feedback zu den Produktabbildungen geben?
Ist der Verkauf dieses Produkts für Sie nicht akzeptabel? |
Mehr über den Autor
Entdecken Sie Bücher, lesen Sie über Autoren und mehr
› Besuchen Sie die Seite von James Ellroy auf Amazon
› Besuchen Sie die Seite von James Ellroy auf Amazon
Produktbeschreibungen
Amazon.com
In the introduction to L.A. Noir, a collection of three contemporary cop thrillers originally published in the early '80s, James Ellroy confesses his desire to match the suspense and terror of Thomas Harris's groundbreaking novel Red Dragon and to create a detective as compelling and as complex as Harris's Will Graham. His attempts to fulfill that desire introduce readers to Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins, a brilliantly flawed hero of sorts whom Ellroy describes as his "antidote to the sensitive candy-assed philosophizing private eye."
Written before Hannibal Lecter made his first appearance in print, before serial killer fiction had become a subgenre, Blood on the Moon, the first novel of the L.A. Noir trilogy, pits the racist, reactionary, sexually obsessed Hopkins against a sexually motivated serial killer whose intelligence and capacity for brutality match the detective's own. In Because the Night, the second book in the trilogy, Hopkins once again confronts psychotic evil, this time while investigating the possible connection between a multiple homicide and the disappearance of a fellow cop. The trilogy concludes with Suicide Hill, a manhunt-thriller in which Hopkins tracks down a kidnapper and discovers among his colleagues a complex web of power, corruption, and lies.
Suspenseful, stark, and startling, the novels of the L.A. Noir trilogy exhibit the seminal hallmarks of Ellroy's taut, haunting prose. His dark and disturbing portrait of Hopkins, a thoroughly unlikable protagonist, drives the novels with unrelenting force, taking readers down paths of they might not really want to explore. Readers seeking a protagonist they can identify with, a hero they can like, probably won't find much to recommend in L.A. Noir, but Ellroy never meant Hopkins to be a likable hero. Instead, he has created what he calls "a complex monument to a basically shitty guy," and in doing so he laid the groundwork for the novels that have earned him a seat at the table of truly great crime novelists. In all, L.A. Noir offers Ellroy's admirers a chance to look back a few years and see the primitive intimations of the style and substance that would later characterize his L.A. Quartet series, but it is no primer for beginners, who might be more readily wooed by the more refined tension and complexity of his later novels. --L.A. Smith -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
Kurzbeschreibung
A single-volume edition of three of the novels featuring Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins of Los Angeles. The first involves the apparently random killings of 20 women, the second a multiple murder committed with a pre-Civil-War revolver, and the third a conspiracy of police corruption.
Welche anderen Artikel kaufen Kunden, nachdem sie diesen Artikel angesehen haben?
In diesem Buch
(Mehr dazu)
Vorgeschlagene Tags zu ähnlichen Produkten(Was ist das?)Setzen Sie den ersten relevanten Tag hinzu (ein Schlüsselwort, das mit diesem Produkt in engem Zusammenhang steht).
|
Kundenrezensionen
Die hilfreichsten Kundenrezensionen
1 von 1 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
Anyone who knows the slightest thing about James Ellroy should realise that this early trilogy was a process of evolution for the stunning writer of truly wonderful fiction like American Tabloid. OK it's not as densely plotted but therein lies the magnificence of this trilogy. It's still expertly crafted and immensely readable. I read Blood on the Moon in one whirlwind of a day. Enjoy the ride Ellroy takes you on and don't concern yourself with meaningless comparisons with his later work. Love Lloyd Hopkins as you surely should. It's still in a league of it's own as far as your average crime writing goes.
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
It's interesting to see where Ellroy started. While Hopkins is an interesting character (and a prototype for such heroes as Bud White in LA Confidential), the plots of Blood On the Moon and Becuase the Night are pretty plain. i have to say, Suicude Hill kept me up reading all night. Ellroy really hasn't faltered since.
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
I wish you guys (earlier customer reviewers) hadn't spoiled it for me, I was just beginning to like this. I've read the other Ellroy stuff and I still find this pretty good, so far. I like the setting (LA when Ellroy was a young man) because it helps to understand Ellroy a little bit better. While I don't think he's as creepy as either the protagonist or antagonist (first story), he know what its like to be that creepy.
Möchten Sie weitere Rezensionen zu diesem Artikel anzeigen?
Waren diese Rezensionen hilfreich?
Wir wollen von Ihnen hören.
Die neuesten Kundenrezensionen
My boy Ellroy!
I read a lot of crime fiction, and nobody does what Ellroy does.Forget the fact that these are early Ellroy works. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 22. Juli 1999 veröffentlicht
To reader from San Diego, May 18th:
Do not give up on Ellroy because of LA NOIR. This collection is his weaker stuff. Try the LA Quartet( The BLack Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, LA Confidential, White Jazz) and American... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 13. Juli 1999 veröffentlicht
To reader from San Diego, May 18th:
Do not give up on Ellroy because of LA NOIR. This collection is his weaker stuff. Try the LA Quartet( The BLack Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, LA Confidential, White Jazz) and American... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 13. Juli 1999 veröffentlicht
Awkward, jerky writing
This is my first and probably last James Ellroy. The hero is not believable in any way and not very interesting in the best of cases. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 18. Mai 1999 veröffentlicht
Pretty good so far!
I wish you guys (earlier customer reviewers) hadn't spoiled it for me, I was just beginning to like this. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 23. Februar 1999 veröffentlicht
Watch Ellroy go from dime-a-dozen hack to near-genius
Expecting the brillinace of 'The Black Dahlia', 'L.A. Confidential' or 'American Tabloid'? Well tough, buddy, you're not gonna get it! But you should read it anyways. Why? Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 23. Juni 1998 von Mark Kawakami
If you like Ellroy this is a great look at the beginnings.
I thought it was great to see the re-release of three early stories by a truly great writer. If you are looking for the maturity found in the L.A quartet you will not find it. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 19. Juni 1998 veröffentlicht
BUYER BEWARE
THIS BOOK IS A REPRINT OF EARLY ELLROY NOVELS FEATURING LLOYD HOPKINS--A STEREOTYPICAL FICTION DETECTIVE. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 11. Juni 1998 veröffentlicht
Reprint of Lloyd Hopkins novels
Unfortunately, this book is not the sequel to American Tabloid. Rather, it is the three Lloyd Hopkins novels in one volume. These are well worth reading, however. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 5. Juni 1998 veröffentlicht
Kunden diskutieren
|
Das Forum zu diesem Produkt
Fragen stellen, Meinungen austauschen, Einblicke gewinnen Aktive Diskussionen in ähnlichen Foren
Kundendiskussionen durchsuchen
|
Ähnliche Foren
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lieblingslisten
|
|
Ähnliche Artikel finden
Anhand des Sachgebietes nach ähnlichen Produkten suchen:
Ihr Kommentar
Möchten Sie die Produktinformationen aktualisieren oder Feedback zu den Produktabbildungen geben?
|
