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rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, scatalogic@... wrote:
> "I got it from the man himself: the third book in
the Underworld
U.S.A.
> Trilogy will be released in March '08. It will end
in May of '72,
and Ellroy has
> said he will not write past that moment in time in
his future works.
In other
> words, all his subsequent work will take place
before May '72. I
wanted to
> pump him for details but I didn't. I do recall him
saying this book
will focus
> on Latin American imperialism, Hoover's final years,
the escalation
of Nam,
> Hoffa's end and Sonny Liston. He has no interest in
Watergate.
>
> No word on if Wayne Tedrow will be the sole
protagonist or if he
creates
> another pair to make it a trio.
I hope age and mastery lead Ellroy to simplify his style,
something that has happened to many writers (usually to the
great benefit of their work, and colaterally, of their
readers).
When Gabriel Garcíˇ MᲱuez published _Love in the time of
cholera_, many people felt that he had let them down; in
fact, he had streamlined his style and he had produced an
authentic work of art. No matter, there were those who loved
him for the torrential style that he practiced his most
famous novel. He has never gone back to that style. I wish
Ellroy would totally abandon the style that started in White
Jazz and got ridiculous in American Tabloid and The Cold Six
Thousand. In Dick Contino's Blues he achieved a kind of
classicism, a hardboiled style that did not overwhelm the
reader. That would be my wish, anyway, which counts for
nuthin', of course.
Best,
mrt
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