The Enchanters

A novel

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Beschreibung

<b>AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR James Ellroy Demon Dog of American Letters goes straight to the tragic heart of 1962 Hollywood with a wild riff on the Marilyn Monroe death myth in an astonishing, behind-the-headlines crime epic.</b><br><br>Los Angeles, August 4, 1962. The city broils through a midsummer heat wave. Marilyn Monroe ODs. A B-movie starlet is kidnapped. The overhyped LAPD overreacts. Chief Bill Parker s looking for some getback. The Monroe deal looks like a moneymaker. He calls in Freddy Otash. <br><br>The freewheeling Freddy O: tainted ex-cop, defrocked private eye, dope fiend, and freelance extortionist. A man who lives by the maxim Opportunity is love. Freddy gets to work. He dimly perceives Marilyn Monroe s death and the kidnapped starlet to be a poisonous riddle that only he has the guts and the brains to untangle. We are with him as he tears through all those who block his path to the truth. We are with him as he penetrates the <i>faux</i>-sunshine of Jack and Bobby Kennedy and the shuck of Camelot. We are with him as he falters, and grasps for love beyond opportunity. We are with him as he tracks Marilyn Monroe s horrific last charade through a nightmare L.A. that <i>he</i> served to create and as he confronts his complicity and his own raging madness. <br><br>It s the Summer of 62, baby. Freddy O s got a hot date with history. The savage Sixties are ready to pop. It s just a shot away.<br><br><i>The Enchanters </i>is a transcendent work of American popular fiction. It is James Ellroy at his most crazed, brilliant, provocative, profanely hilarious, and stop-your-heart tender. It is a luminous psychological drama and an unparalleled thrill ride. It is, resoundingly, the great American crime novel.

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781524712563

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

29 x 156 x 233 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Verlag / Hersteller

Knopf