Perfidia
By James Ellroy
By James Ellroy
By James Ellroy
By James Ellroy
By James Ellroy
Read by Craig Wasson
By James Ellroy
Read by Craig Wasson
Category: Literary Fiction | Noir Novels | Historical Fiction
Category: Literary Fiction | Noir Novels | Historical Fiction
Category: Literary Fiction | Noir Novels | Historical Fiction | Audiobooks
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$17.95
Jul 07, 2015 | ISBN 9780307946676
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Sep 09, 2014 | ISBN 9780385353212
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Sep 09, 2014 | ISBN 9780553399271
1688 Minutes
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$17.95
Jul 07, 2015 | ISBN 9780307946676
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Sep 09, 2014 | ISBN 9780385353212
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Sep 09, 2014 | ISBN 9780553399271
1688 Minutes
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Praise
âA powerful roar of a story. . . . Wickedly elaborate, its plotting brilliant. . . . Kudos to Ellroy for elevating the crime genre.â âSan Francisco Chronicle
âPure, unadulterated Ellroy and a darkly compelling deconstruction of the recent American past. . . . Perfidia shows us the war on the home front as we have never seen it before.â âThe Washington Post
â[The first L.A. Quartet] made Ellroy Americaâs best crime novelist. . . . Perfidia represents new depth, scope, and craftsmanship in [his] canon. It is his finest work.â âAustin Chronicle
âEllroy successfully spins a drug-alcohol-and-nefarious-deeds-fueled wartime web of double-dealing betrayal, insidious activities, and gruesome atrocities. . . . . Itâs tough and ugly and infuriatingâand relentlessly readable.â âThe Boston Globe
âOne of the great American writers of our time.â âLos Angeles Times
âA brilliant, breakneck ride. Nobody except James Ellroy could pull this off. He doesnât merely writeâhe ignites and demolishes.ââCarl Hiaasen
â[Ellroyâs] styleâjumpy, feverish, and anarchicâmirrors the world we enter. . . . [He] depicts with frightening authenticity how those innocent of crimes are knowingly framed in the interest of the almighty âgreater goodâ.â âDennis Lehane, The New York Times Book Review
âEllroy has a way of giving gravitas to ugliness and making brutality beautiful. . . . To see him operating this way, full of power and totally in his comfort zone, is an awesome thing to behold.â âNPR/All Things Considered
âAsk me to name the best living novelist whoâs fierce, brave, funny, scatological, beautiful, convoluted, and paranoid . . . and it becomes simple: James Ellroy. If insanity illuminated by highly dangerous strokes of literary lightning is your thing, then Ellroyâs your man.â âStephen King, Entertainment Weekly
âGrittier than Chandler, more operatic than Hammett, and more violent even than Cain. . . . Ellroy whittles [his charactersâ] thoughts and actions into sentences the way others do shivsâlean, brutalist, and intended to puncture, to penetrate.â âInterview magazine
âIt is welcome news that Ellroyâs latest effort, Perfidia, returns home, sliding in as a prequel to the L.A. Quartet, set in the previous decade. . . . He is driven by a paradoxical obsession: to keep on digging up dark memories of the city, in the hope of rising above the psychic traumas of the pastânot reborn, but newly wise.â âThe Atlantic
âIf Ellroyâs bitter visions entice you, Perfidia will take you once again to the underbelly of American history. . . . You will dive into Perfidia with a shiver that is equal parts anticipation and fearâbecause you know itâs going to get very dark very fast. . . . Ellroyâs singular style has been described as jazzlike or telegraphic; here it is insomniac, hallucinogenic, nightmarish.â âTampa Bay Times
âThere has never been a writer like James Ellroy. . . . He has been making real a secret world behind the official history of America . . . and to enter it is to experience a vivid eyeball rush of recognition.â âThe Telegraph (London)
âPerfidia brings the two sides of his work together: the period crime-writing of LA Quartet, with its highlighting of police misdemeanors, and the wider politico-historical concerns of his subsequent Underworld USA trilogy.â âThe Guardian (London), âEssential New Fictionâ
âA war novel like no other. . . . Thereâs no telling the good guys from the bad in Ellroyâs Los Angeles, because there are no good guys. . . . Ellroy is not only back in formâheâs raised the stakes.â âKirkus Reviews (starred review)
âA return to the scene of Ellroyâs greatest success and a triumphant return to form. . . . His character portrayals have never been more nuanced orâdare we say itâsympathetic. . . . A disturbing, unforgettable, and inflammatory vision of how the men in charge respond to the threat of war. Itâs an ugly picture, but just try looking away.â âBooklist (starred review)