![]() ![]() The plot is faultless, but there's never been a question mark hanging over Ellroy's maths. ![]() The reader clicks into Ellroy's pithy groove, but even then there's an emptiness behind the thrust and swagger of his prose. Wayne dumped his piss cup') quickly becomes irritating, and it seems unrealistic that everyone connected with the American political underworld in the mid-Sixties would do their thinking in jive. But there's barely a paragraph longer than two lines here, the endless repetition of names ('Wayne yawned. ![]() It's hard to say how this book is inferior, but it certainly lacks Tabloid's urgency, perhaps because its climactic event (Robert Kennedy's assassination) doesn't cast quite such a huge shadow over the modern world, perhaps because Ellroy's ever more jazzy and minimal delivery is beginning to have the opposite effect to the intended one.Įllroy was fast and clipped enough as it was, earlier novels like LA Confidential, American Tabloid and White Jazz creating something immense and symphonic (always Ellroy's aim) via something ultra-economical. ![]()
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