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The Big Nowhere is a 1988 crime fiction novel by American author James Ellroy, the second of the L.A. Quartet, a series of novels set in 1940s and 1950s Los Angeles.
- James Ellroy
- 1988
Sep 1, 1988 · The Big Nowhere. James Ellroy. 4.09. 17,466 ratings700 reviews. This work is set in 1950s, Los Angeles. The City of Angels has become the city of the Angel of Death. Communist witch-hunts and insanely violent killings are terrorising the community.
- (17K)
- Paperback
May 1, 1998 · The Big Nowhere is brilliant historical fiction featuring a plot most hard-boiled noir novelists would only dream of doing. Ellroy, like he did with Dahlia, pretty much brings 1950's Los Angeles back to life with obsessively detailed characters, locations and dialogue.
- (1.3K)
- $15.69
- James Ellroy
- Grand Central Publishing
A thriller set in 1950s Los Angeles, where three men are caught in a web of ambition, perversion and deceit during the Red Scare and a string of brutal murders. The book is part of the L.A. Quartet series by the author of Black Dahlia.
James Ellroy. St. Martin's Press, 1988 - Fiction - 406 pages. The author of The Black Dahlia presents the powerful second novel in his L.A. Quartet. In The Big Nowhere, three men are caught up in...
- 0892962836, 9780892962839
- James Ellroy
- St. Martin's Press, 1988
Jan 1, 2013 · James Ellroy. Grand Central Publishing, Jan 1, 2013 - Fiction - 416 pages. The D. A.'s brass, a sheriff's deputy, and a rough-and-tumble bagman are unknowingly chasing a nightmare in this...
Three men are plunged into a maelstrom of violence and deceit when their lives become inextricably linked as each one confronts his own personal darkness. The second of the LA Quartet, the epigraph...
