James Elroy Libros

En la turbulenta década de los 50, la policñia de la ciudad de Los Ángeles investiga un brutal asesinato colectivo, en un ambiente impregnado de corrupción y violencia. James Ellroy, para quien esta novela supuso su consagración como autor, perfila de manera brillante la compleja personalidad de sus personajes, tres policias que se mueven en los escabrosos límites de la ley, dominados por la ambición , el amor , el odio y la venganza. L.A. Confidential, que fue llevada ala pantalla por Curtis Hanson y protagonizada por Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pierce, Danny De Vito y Kim Basinger, obtuvo dos oscar en 1998.

El agente literario Molton Alpert ha anunciado que representara a martin Michael Plunkett, condenado por varios asesinatos y conocido como el Verdugo Sexual, en la venta de sus memorias autobiograficas, un relato que, segun Alperte, "no se calla nada y esta destinado a recibir la consideracion de texto clasico sobre la mente criminal". Martin Michael Plunkett es la oscura combinacion de un intelecto privilegiado, un alma despiadada y un corazon maligno. Su infancia se vio sacudida por sueños terribles y enrevesadas fantasias. Pronto descubre el alivio que le supone la vision, el sabor y el tacto de la sangre tibia. Y se rinde a los salvajes y terribles impulsos que le revelan que su verdadera vocacion es ser un asesino perfecto. Asi traza un sangriento reguero a lo largo de las carreteras de Estados Unidos, de costa a costa. Parece que no hay motivos, y es que Martin Plankett mata solo por placer. Su brillante y retorcida mente es un espeluznante lugar sin explotar. Ahora el mismo se encargara de confesar todo el horror. Su locura refleja la locura de una nacion. El asesino esta en la carretera.

This novel is set in Los Angeles, the city of angels that has become the city of the Angel of Death. It is about communist witch-hunts and about insanely violent killings which are terrorising the community.

A novel of the Kennedy era, portraying the president in a far from flattering light. There are three protagonists: a CIA agent who pimps for JFK, another agent who trains anti-Castro rebels, and a lawyer who is a Mafia hunter. Through their eyes are seen the conflicting interests of the Kennedys, the director of the FBI, organized crime, organized labor, Castro and Cuban exiles.

It is Christmas, 1951, Los Angeles. A city where the police are as corrupt as the criminals, six prisoners are beaten senseless in their cells by cops crazed on alcohol. For the three L.A.P.D. detectives involved, it will expose the guilty secrets on which they have built their corrupt and violent careers

Foreword by Ralph Rugoff. Texts by James Ellroy, Ralph Rugoff, Alexandra Schwartz, Bruce Wagner and Ulrich Wilmes. Interview by Kristine McKenna Ed Ruscha ist einer der einflussreichsten Künstler der Gegenwart und hat einige der bekanntesten Bilder unserer Zeit gemalt und sich dennoch ein gewisses Misstrauen gegenüber der klassischen Malerei bewahrt. Er wusste ständig die Mittel und Wege des klassischen Malprozesses zu umgehen. Es gab Zeiten, in denen er kaum oder gar nicht gemalt hat, wie in den Jahren 1969–1981. Jede Art von Etikettierung der Pop Art oder Konzeptkunst lehnte er ab, obwohl er beiden Stilrichtungen wichtige Impulse gegeben hat. Der Katalog zeigt bedeutende Beispiele aus allen Schaffensperioden: Die großen, querformatigen Bilder der Standard Oil Tankstellen, die Schatten, Silhouetten und Segelschiffe, die des historischen Zugs, der Pioniere nach Westen des amerikansichen Kontinents, Präriewagen, Pferden, Kakteen und Koyoten. Viele jüngere Künstler schreiben seinen Fotobüchern der 1960er Jahre sowie seinen Zeichnungen und Gemälden bedeutenden Einfluss auf ihr Werk zu.

Nominated for the Folio Prize It is December 6 1941. America stands at the brink of World War II. Last hopes for peace are shattered when Japanese squadrons bomb Pearl Harbor. Los Angeles has been a haven for loyal Japanese-Americans âe" but now, war fever and race hate grip the city and the Japanese internment begins. The hellish murder of a Japanese family summons three men and one woman. William H. Parker is a captain on the Los Angeles Police. Heâe(tm)s superbly gifted, corrosively ambitious, liquored-up and consumed by dubious ideology. He is bitterly at odds with Sergeant Dudley Smith âe" Irish émigré, ex-IRA killer, fledgling war profiteer. Kay Lake is a 21-year-old dilettante looking for adventure. Hideo Ashida is a police chemist and the only Japanese on the L.A. cop payroll. The investigation throws them together and rips them apart. The crime becomes a political storm centre that brilliantly illuminates these four driven souls âe" comrades, rivals, lovers, historyâe(tm)s pawns. Perfidia is a novel of astonishments. It is World War II as you have never seen it, and Los Angeles as James Ellroy has never written it before. Here, he gives us the party at the edge of the abyss and the precipice of Americaâe(tm)s ascendance. Perfidia is that moment, spellbindingly captured. It beckons us to solve a great crime that, in its turn, explicates the crime of war itself. It is a great American novel.

A young Las Vegas cop named Wayne Tedrow, Jr. travels through the 1960s, from JFK's assassination to Vietnam, unaware that J. Edgar Hoover is the one pulling the strings.