Presents six stories that take place in Los Angeles from 1947 to 1959
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James Ellroy, described by the Los Angeles Times: "Developing into one of the great American writers."Ellroy's L.A. Quartet novels - The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, White Jazz - an epic pop history of a toxic metropolis.Hollywood Nocturnes: An alternative Ellroy universe, etched less in blood and more in elegiac neon.Dick Contino: Accordion virtuoso, lounge lizard, Red Scare scapegoat. On a greased slide in '58 L.A.: A show biz fatality begging to happen. Dick Contino's Blues: Half nocturne, half torch song. A blast back to tailfins, disease-free promiscuity, sex killers, Commie-bashing, publicity kidnaps, and B-movie redemption - an ode to a time when love came cheap.Nocturnes: Noir set to music.James Ellroy: America's great noir writer.Dick Contino: America's kingpin accordion player, then and now. The accordion and noir? . . .Suspend your disbelief.Hollywood Nocturnes: The novella Dick Contino's Blues, Ellroy's entire short-story oeuvre, and a few surprises. Dig it, kats and kittens, chix and charlies: This is prime-time Ellroy.
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