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Praise for James Ellroy
“One of the great American writers or our time.” — Los Angeles Times
“A blood poet who writes as chain saws crank, Ellroy has vigorously redefined the well-shadowed turf of contemporary crime fiction.” — The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
"An undeniably artful frenzy of violence, guilt, and unappeased self-loathing. Ellroy's crime fiction represents a high mark in the genre." — Newsday
“Ellroy rips into American culture like a chainsaw in an abbatoir.” — Time
"He's forged a style uniquely his own. Energetic and abrasive, it comes at us like a speed freak. . . . The power and pull of Ellroy's writing is unmistakable." — Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Ellroy is the author of some of the most powerful crime novels ever written." — The New York Times
“Garrotte-tight prose. . . . [Ellroy is] a force of nature, stringing together words into barbed-wire lariats which he then uses to choke the bejesus out of you. . . . His novels are all muscle, zero fat.” — Austin Chronicle
"Memorable, stunning, incisive. . . . It is possible, I think, to make the argument that in the past couple of decades, Mr. Ellroy has been the most influential writer in America." — Otto Penzler, The New York Sun
“Nobody in this generation matches the breadth and depth of James Ellroy’s way with noir.” — Detroit News
"Ellroy sprays declarative sentences like machine-gun bullets, blasting to kingdom come all notions of justice, heroism, and simple decency." — Entertainment Weekly
