I like JE's style in WJ & AT; however, I also agree that
it isn't a thing one can make a lifetime out of recycling. I
only wish the older Dave Klein'd had a better ear for
dialogue, as some of Glenda's lines are just too cardboard.
R
----- Original Message ---- From: jacquesdebierue <
jacquesdebierue@yahoo.com> To:
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, December 15,
2007 5:42:35 PM Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Sorry, more
Ellroy
---
In 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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