{"product_id":"crime-wave-reportage-and-fiction-from-the-underside-of-la-9780375704710","title":"Crime Wave: Reportage and Fiction from the Underside of L.A.","description":"Los Angeles. In no other city do sex, celebrity, money, and crime exert such an irresistible magnetic field. And no writer has mapped that field with greater savagery and savvy than James Ellroy. With this fever-hot collection of reportage and short fiction, he returns to his native habitat and portrays it as a smog-shrouded netherworld where\"every third person is a peeper, prowler, pederast, or pimp.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the scandal sheets of the 1950s to this morning's police blotter, Ellroy reopens true crimes and restores human dimensions to their victims. Sublimely, he resurrects the rag \u003ci\u003eHush-Hush\u003c\/i\u003e magazine. And in a baroquely plotted novella of slaughter and corruption he enlists the forgotten luminaries of a lost Hollywood. Shocking, mesmerizing, and written in prose as wounding as an ice pick, \u003cb\u003eCrime Wave\u003c\/b\u003e is Ellroy at his best.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Knopf Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/26\/1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780375704710\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.57lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.02h x 5.22w x 0.73d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/22\/1999 pg. 69\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/15\/1999 pg. 78\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/15\/1999 pg. 425\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/14\/1999 pg. 22\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/15\/1999 pg. 1284\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBrill's Content\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/1999 pg. 120\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"James Ellroy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43705047351477,"sku":"9780375704710","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_cf5b5fb6-63c9-496a-9b1a-27b9e7f709c0.jpg?v=1709653492","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/crime-wave-reportage-and-fiction-from-the-underside-of-la-9780375704710","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}