Author: James Ellroy
Translator: Joong-gil Na
Publisher: RHK
745 pages | 207*145mm
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About This Book
James Ellroy's L.A. Confidential is film-noir crime fiction akin to
Chinatown, Hollywood Babylon, Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, and
Jim Thompson. It's about three tortured souls in the 1950s L.A.P.D.: Ed
Exley, the clean-cut cop who lives shivering in the shadow of his dad, a
legendary cop in the same department; Jack Vincennes, a cop who advises
a Police Squad- like TV show and busts movie stars for payoffs from
sleazy Hush-Hush magazine; and Bud White, a detective haunted by the
sight of his dad murdering his mom.
Ellroy himself was traumatized as a boy by his party-animal mother's
murder. (See his memoir My Dark Places for the whole sordid story.) So
it is clear that Bud is partly autobiographical. But Exley, whose shiny
reputation conceals a dark secret, and Vincennes, who goes showbiz with
a vengeance, reflect parts of Ellroy, too.
L.A. Confidential holds enough plots for two or three books: the cops
chase stolen gangland heroin through a landscape littered with
not-always-innocent corpses while succumbing to sexy sirens who have
been surgically resculpted to resemble movie stars; a vile
developer--based (unfairly) on Walt Disney-- schemes to make big bucks
off Moochie Mouse; and the cops compete with the crooks to see who can
be more corrupt and violent. Ellroy's hardboiled prose is so compressed
that some of his rat-a-tat paragraphs are hard to follow. You have to
read with attention as intense as his—and that is very intense indeed.
But he richly rewards the effort. He may not be as deep and literary as
Chandler, but he belongs on the same top-level shelf.
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