He returns with a new work called The Enchanters. James Ellroy will be the guest of La Grande Librairie this Wednesday, September 25, 2024.
The opportunity to learn more about this best-selling author. Born in March 1948 in Los Angeles, the one who is named Lee Earle Ellroy,
specializes in crime novels and historical detective novels.
He has written four best-selling books focusing on Los Angeles. Côté coeur, James Ellroy shared Helen Knode’s life. This Canadian, she too a writer and journalist, was married from 1991 to 2006 to James Ellroy.
Former journalist and film critic for the LA Weeklyshe will release her first novel, entitled
Hollywood Terminus.
Helen Knode, author and journalist
Today, Helen Knode lives in Texas, in Austin. Her former husband, James Ellroy is therefore back in the spotlight with the release of this new book. And according to the reviews of our colleagues at France Info, this work is in line with his previous ones: biting and dark: “It’s an extremely curious novel, the return of Ellroy XXL.”
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“The author feels nothing for Marilyn Monroe, which interests him, It is above all the reconstruction of the obsessive madness of his characterin the manner of Dostoevsky. We are first in the head and the delirium of Freddy Otash. Ellroy delivers this to us with a text composed as a set of small segments, crossed by a lightning electricity”,
says literary critic François Angelier.
“It’s a haunting book”
And as is often the case with this author’s books, the story remains in the reader’s memory again and again.”I think I have taken a dislike to books that do not love their subject. And then I find that there are other things to do with Marilyn than to continue to destroy her. But it must be admitted that it is a book that haunts its reader, written in a gripping language, crackling like a lamp.”says Philippe Azoury.
As you will have understood, James Ellroy is a colorful author and he will be present this evening in La Grande Librairie.
