Books
October, 1992
Just when it looked as though the American detective novel couldn't get much better, James Ellroy appears with a stylistic breakthrough that may revolutionize crime fiction. The tough, telegraphic prose of White Jazz(Knopf) gives the term hard-boiled a whole new meaning. Written in a riveting street-smart cop shorthand, this wild, funny novel reaches back to the free-swinging days of rackets, racism and corrupt cops in Los Angeles circa 1958.Shortly after we meet Lieutenant David "the Enfor...
