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Bezig met laden... This Stormdoor James Ellroy
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Ooga-booga, I hated this book. Won't be reading Ellroy again. ( ) Nuova, estenuante 'pièce de résistance' (per il lettore) a firma Ellroy dove come d'uso la forma prevale sulla sostanza e la deboscia è spinta ai limiti della caricatura, ma che nel complesso si rivela assai meglio del precedente 'Perfidia' in un ossessivo incrociarsi di percorsi narrativi che però non vanno a discapito di una coinvolgente unità. Indispensabile l'elenco dei personaggi posto in appendice. I'll freely admit that I'm a big fan of James Ellroy, ever since I picked a copy of White Jazz 15 or so years ago. I eagerly await each new book and am constantly looking out for old hardbound copies to complete my collection (I have a pretty solid aversion to paperbacks). You certainly know what you're getting yourself into when you pick up one of his books; a hard nose, noir-ish staccato that leaps from gutter to gutter. A crude, modern day take on Dashiell Hammett. All these expectations were met with this book, but honestly this time out was a bit over the top. The style and depravity just got a little tiring about half way through. The story is his typical aggressive portrayal of irredeemable corruption (both for money and for souls), but this was just too much. In a word, it was just Tiring. Enero de 1942. Los Ángeles se tambalea después del shock de Pearl Harbor. Lluvias torrenciales azotan la ciudad. Las autoridades detienen y confinan en campos de internamiento a los japoneses afincados en Estados Unidos. En Griffith Park un cadáver queda al descubierto tras un corrimiento de tierra. Los policías creen que es un caso de rutina. Se equivocan. Es un primer augurio de que el Caos se avecina. Hay un violento incendio y un robo de oro. Hay traición quintacolumnista en suelo americano. El propio país engendra nazis, comunistas y estafadores dispuestos a hacer negocio a costa de las diferencias raciales. Es el auge del populismo. Aparecen dos policías muertos en un tugurio a un paso de los clubes de jazz. Y tres hombres y una mujer asisten a una importante cita con la Historia. Elmer Jackson es un agente corrupto de Antivicio. Es proxeneta y recadero del jefe de policía de Los Ángeles. Hideo Ashida es un genio de la química forense y víctima del odio a los japos. Dudley Smith es un hombre duro del Departamento de Policía que ahora trabaja en el Servicio de Inteligencia del Ejército; va a la suya y ha desarrollado inclinaciones declaradamente fascistas. Joan Conville ha ido siempre a la suya: teniente de la Armada, ha abandonado la carrera militar y ahora es una ventajista descarada que saca provecho de la guerra. Por momentos atroz, tierna y elegíaca, Esta tormenta es la magistral continuación de Perfidia y forma parte del segundo Cuarteto de Los Ángeles, donde Ellroy recorre los años de la Segunda Guerra Mundial explorando sus aristas más brutales. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
"From "one of the great American writers of our time" (Los Angeles Times Book Review)--a brilliant historical crime novel, a pulse-pounding, as-it-happens narrative that unfolds in Los Angeles and Mexico in the wake in Pearl Harbor. New Year's Eve 1941, war has been declared and the Japanese internment is in full swing. Los Angeles is gripped by war fever and racial hatred. Sergeant Dudley Smith of the Los Angeles Police Department is now Army Captain Smith and a budding war profiteer. He's shacked up with Claire De Haven in Baja, Mexico, and spends his time sniffing out fifth column elements and hunting down a missing Japanese Naval Attache. Hideo Ashida is cashing LAPD paychecks and working in the crime lab, but he knows he can't avoid internment forever. Newly arrived Navy Lieutenant Joan Conville winds up in jail accused of vehicular homicide, but Captain William H. Parker squashes the charges and puts her on Ashida's team. Elmer Jackson, who is assigned to the alien squad and to bodyguard Ashida, begins to develop an obsession with Kay Lake, the unconsummated object of Captain Parker's desire. Now, Conville and Ashida become obsessed with finding the identity of a body discovered in a mudslide. It's a murder victim linked to an unsolved gold heist from '31, and they want the gold. And things really heat up when two detectives are found murdered in a notorious dope fiend hang-out"-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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