Word: novels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Being the author of the hit-novel-turned-even-bigger-hit-movie is that for which James Ellroy is most celebrated. A sort of Raymond Chandler of the 90s, with a prose accordingly jacked up and acidified to match these less enchanted times, Ellroy is one of the most respected crime writers today to sling out stories ripped from the underside of American history. His heroes and villains crawl through dark worlds of dirty secrets but secrets which are paradoxically laid bare to a piercing, raking intellect. The subtext of the scandal sheet is that nothing is secret; everything...
...still a valuable work," he said. "One cannot read it as The Truth in capitals, but just as you can read a historical novel to get a feel for a historical era, her novel can be used in this function...
...still a valuable work," he said. "One cannot read it as The Truth in capitals, but just as you can read a historical novel to get a feel for a historical era, her novel can be used in this function...
Spanidou's book is as much a meditation on the nature of fear as it is a novel. Plot, subplots and characters all act as vehicles for the author's ruminations...
...novel begins, 13-year-old Anna is just starting a new school in her native country of Greece. There she meets Val, an attractive, bold girl who quickly becomes her best friend. This coming-of-age tale focuses on the relationship between the two girls and no Anna's teenage parent-struggles. Acting as one source of the fear that drives the novel is "The Dragon," un-catchable man who murders young girls...