Triber wrote:
"Well, I'm gonna take the plunge. White Jazz is a
masterpiece. His stuff before Jazz almost seems amateurish in
comparison. Ellroy's use of the language is virtually
poetic...and that rat-a-tat voice takes hard-boiled prose and
stretches it to its boundaries."
I agree about White Jazz, but I think it's a one-of-a-kind
that can't be followed up on. Not even by Ellroy himself. The
distinctive style that was the perfect vehicle for that story
quickly become nothing but a set of stylistic tics and
shtick. By American Tabloid, only one novel later, it was
nothing but self-parody.
Mark
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