About this title: Ellroy's 1995 novel AMERICAN TABLOID is a fictionalized recreation of the days just before President Kennedy's assassination. THE COLD SIX THOUSAND, the sequel to AMERICAN TABLOID, picks up almost where the earlier book leaves off. Taciturn heroes (or is it anti-heroes?) Pete Bondurant and Ward Littell return, to wend their way along the interwoven avenues of American politics and crime. A New York Times Notable Book for 2001.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc, Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780679403920ISBN:0679403922
Description: Good. PRESENTABLE hard covered edition in a FULL DUST JACKET. Dust jacket has a few fold marks and fits but not that tightly. Slight scuff to the covers and page edge. USEFUL! clean. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Vintage Books
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780375727405ISBN:037572740X
Description: New. No dust jacket as issued. Clean and tight-unused copy-Excellent! ! Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 688 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 2002-06-11
ISBN-13:9780375727405ISBN:037572740X
Description: New. Clean, Unmarked Copy, Priority Shipping recommended for prompt delivery by USPS when offered, Delivery Confirmation on all domestic items where available. read more
Binding: Audio Book
Publisher: Random House, Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780375419157ISBN:0375419152
Description: Good. 14 reliable audio cassettes in the box printed and published by listening library. Some shelf wear scuff and chafing to the box. Inside the tapes sit sturdy and presentable. Enjoy this unabridged audio performance. read more
Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780679403920ISBN:0679403922
Description: Fine in very good dust jacket. DJ has bumping to upper spine and light rubbing to back cover. First Edition as stated with date. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Vintage Books USA
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780375727405ISBN:037572740X
Description: New. No dust jacket as issued. Never read, no remainder marks. NO EXPEDITED SHIPPING. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 688 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Mississauga, ON, Canada: Random House of Canada, Limited, 2001
Description: Hard Cover. First Edition. ISBN: 0679403922. EX-LIBRARY BOOK WITH ALL THE USUAL STAMPS AND LABELS. VERY GOOD CONDITION. LAS VEGAS NEV FICTION GENERAL DALLAS TEX. read more
Description: Acceptable. Heavy-Creased Spine-Light Wear-*** Expect to receive a well read copy-The condition of the book will be readable, perhaps with heavy creasing and some damage. You wouldn't want to give it as a present-Dispatched in padded packaging. ** UK SELLER-Get it in days not weeks ** read more
"If you can take A LOT of racist slurs...this is an interesting take on American History in the 1960s (JFK, RFK, MLK Jr) - just be prepared for some very stylistic writing, with a lot of the "n" word and graphic violence. I enjoyed this book despite my anti-rape feelings."
"Weird, wild, crazy...are you kidding me? Never read anything like this before. Not sure I can/should recommend it to too many. It's a gut-check. But I loved it. Short, violent sentences. Staccato rhythms,clipped, stylized, hard-nosed and repetitive. Entire story (and way of telling it) is like getting kicked in the groin and then bitch-slapped while ordering a very dry vodka martini."
"Distinguishing features of this book are staccato 'sentences' and extreme violence. I got truly fed up with the sheer quantity of 'scoped', 'braced' and 'clipped'. The staccato thing is an affectation of the author, who can write genuine sentences when he wants to. He usually wants to during exchanges between J Edgar Hoover and others, these having the effect of making J Edgar appear the most articulate individual in the book. I tend to think you can't be articulate without being intelligent, so I find this unnecessarily complimentary to J Edgar.
The starting point being the assassination of JFK, numerous historical individuals have their names taken in vain. To take one example, Sal Mineo figures quite a lot in an unflattering homosexual way. What truth is there in Ellroy's depiction of Mineo? I don't know. But what if it isn't accurate? Some of the events in which he's unwillingly involved in the book are clearly fiction. Can anyone have his name taken in vain by an author especially if, like Mineo, he's safely dead? (Well, unsafely in this case, since he was murdered). In this book we have, among others, Bobby Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Martin Luther King, Richard Nixon, J Edgar Hoover, Howard Hughes (Drac) . . .
The level of detail is convincing - weaponry, drugs etc - but the book's main function is to pass the reader's time. I don't feel I was any better for reading it, for example, any better informed.
One thing he does well, though, is convey the nature of a relationship in very few words. An example of this would be Pete Bondurant's relationship with Barbara, who becomes increasingly unhappy with his drug running, Cuba fixation, and involvement in Vietnam. Wayne Junior's problems with women after the murder of his wife are very well done too."
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