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James Ellroy

Autore di Dalia nera

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James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. His L. A. Quartet novels - "The Black Dahlia", "The Big Nowhere", "L. A. Confidential", & "White Jazz" - were international best-sellers. His novel "American Tabloid" was Time magazine's Novel of the Year for 1995; his memoir, "My Dark Places", was a "Time" Best Book of the Year & a "New Yorker Times" Notable Book for 1996. He lives in Kansas City. (Publisher Provided) James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles, California on March 4, 1948. His parents were divorced and he moved in with his father after his mother was murdered in 1958. The story of his mother's unsolved murder would become the basis for his 1996 nonfiction work entitled My Dark Places. He attended Fairfax High School, where he sent Nazi pamphlets to girls he liked and criticized JFK, while advocating the reinstatement of slavery. He was eventually expelled for preaching Nazism in his English class. He joined the army after his expulsion from school, but after realizing that he did not belong there, he faked a stutter and convinced the army psychologist that he was not mentally fit for combat. After three months, he received a dishonorable discharge and returned home. His father died soon thereafter. He was thrown in juvenile hall for stealing a steak from the local market. When he got out, his father's friend became his guardian, but by the age of eighteen, he was back on the streets. He was sleeping outside, stealing, drinking and experimenting with drugs. It wasn't long before he was thrown in jail for breaking into a vacant apartment. When he got out of jail, he started a job at an adult book store, his addictions growing progressively larger. He was misusing the drug Benzedrex, a sinus inhalent which nearly drove him to Schizophrenia and his drinking was ruining his health. He contracted pneumonia twice as well as a condition called post-alchohol brain syndrome. Fearing for his sanity, he joined AA, became sober and found a job as a golf caddy. At the age of 30, he wrote his first novel entitled Brown's Requiem, which was published in 1981. His other works include Clandestine, Blood on the Moon, Because the Night, Suicide Hill, Killer on the Road, and The Cold Six Thousand. His works The Black Dahlia and L. A. Confidential were adapted into feature films. Ellroy's title, Perfidia, made the New York Times bestseller list in 2014. 030i — biografia da Dalia nera… (altro)

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Opere di James Ellroy

Dalia nera 5,246 copie, 128 recensioni

L.A. Confidential 3,283 copie, 36 recensioni

American Tabloid 2,722 copie, 43 recensioni

Il grande nulla 1,900 copie, 22 recensioni

Sei pezzi da mille 1,791 copie, 20 recensioni

White Jazz 1,678 copie, 15 recensioni

I miei luoghi oscuri 1,544 copie, 16 recensioni

Il sangue e randagio 948 copie, 21 recensioni

Clandestino 761 copie, 8 recensioni

Prega detective 678 copie, 14 recensioni

Perfidia 625 copie, 25 recensioni

L'angelo del silenzio 585 copie, 7 recensioni

Le strade dell'innocenza 557 copie, 9 recensioni

Corpi da reato 556 copie, 3 recensioni

Notturni hollywoodiani 549 copie, 6 recensioni

La trilogia di Hopkins 443 copie, 2 recensioni

Destination: morgue 408 copie, 5 recensioni

Perché la notte 372 copie, 4 recensioni

La collina dei suicidi 359 copie

The Best American Noir of the Century (A cura di; Collaboratore) 339 copie, 6 recensioni

The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women 247 copie, 6 recensioni

This Storm 233 copie, 5 recensioni

Il meglio del mistery americano (Editor & Introduction) 153 copie

The Dudley Smith Trio: "Big Nowhere", "L.A. Confidential", "White Jazz" 115 copie

Scorciatoie per l'inferno (A cura di) 114 copie, 1 recensione

Widespread Panic 104 copie, 3 recensioni

L.A. Confidential (Penguin Readers, Level 3) 75 copie, 1 recensione

The L.A. Quartet (The Black Dahlia | The Big Nowhere | L.A. Confidential |… 75 copie

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LAPD '53 59 copie, 1 recensione

Ed Ruscha: Fifty Years of Painting 43 copie

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Ricatto 38 copie, 2 recensioni

Tijuana, mon amour 38 copie

Fallen Angels: Six Noir Tales Told for Television 22 copie

Jungletown Jihad 19 copie, 1 recensione

Loco por Donna 13 copie

Grave Doubt [SS] 12 copie

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Extorsion : Suivi de Perfidia 11 copie

[unidentified works] 7 copie

Reporter criminel (Rivages/Noir) 7 copie

L. A. Confidencial. Volumen II 4 copie

Millennium thriller 4 copie, 1 recensione

Murder and Mayhem 3 copie

Brown's Requiem; Clandestine; Killer on the Road 3 copie

The Best American Mystery Stories 2002 [Audio Book, abridged] (A cura di) 3 copie, 1 recensione

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Panique générale 3 copie

Browns Grabgesang / Heimlich. Zwei Romane in einem Band. 3 copie

Cronaca nera 2 copie

Gravy Train 2 copie

Pánico / Widespread Panic (Spanish Edition) 2 copie, 1 recensione

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The Black Dahlia 2 copie

High Darktown 2 copie

Sangue Vadio (Portuguese Edition) 2 copie

Los Angeles Al Desnudo/L.a Confidential (Spanish Edition) 2 copie

The Black Dahlia (Vol. 2 of 2) 2 copie

Coffret Ellroy, 2 volumes : Le Dahlia noir, L.A. confidential 2 copie

Die schwarze Dahlie / Blutschatten. Zwei Romane. 2 copie

egklimata kata syrroin / εγκλήματα κατά συρροήν 2 copie

Hollywood trema (racconti) 2 copie

Tabloid 1 copia

ELS MEUS RACONS FOSCOS 1 copia

Allgemeine Panik: Roman | Die Schattenseiten Hollywoods der 50er-Jahre… 1 copia

I ragazzi del coro (in The dark side) 1 copia

o nychterinos taxidiotis / ο νυχτερινός ταξιδιώτης 1 copia

Six Years 1 copia

L.A. Confidentials 1 copia

Coup de passion. précédé d'un entretien avec… 1 copia

Els Meus racons foscos : unes mem©øries criminals de Los… 1 copia

The Enchanters: A novel 1 copia

Silent Terror by James Ellroy (1986-12-03) 1 copia

Since I Don't Have You 1 copia

Torch Number 1 copia

“The Poet of Collision: on Dashiell Hammett's day job” 1 copia

Dial Axminster 6-400 1 copia

Hight Darktown; Yours, Jack the Ripper 1 copia

The Art of Fiction No. 201 1 copia

O grande desconhecido 1 copia

California noir : two great mysteries 1 copia

Requiem por brown 1 copia

Ola de crímenes 1 copia

Hvid jazz : roman 1 copia

Jener Sturm: 2 1 copia

Scorciatoie per l'inferno. Storie vere dal mondo del crimine 1 copia

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