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Perfidia. This Storm: A Novel is a 2019 historical fiction and crime fiction by American author James Ellroy. It is the second novel in Ellroy's "Second L.A. Quartet", in reference to the first "L.A. Quartet", and following the novel Perfidia. Ellroy dedicated the novel "To HELEN KNODE." The epigraph is "Blood alone moves the wheels of history.
- 608 pp (first edition, hardcover)
- James Ellroy
- May 30, 2019 (United Kingdom), June 4, 2019 (United States)
Jun 4, 2019 · This Storm is the second part of the 2nd L.A. quartet but it and the first book in the series is set before the period covered in the first L.A. quartet [ The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential and White Jazz].
- Knopf
- $16.99
Jun 4, 2019 · This Storm is an epic, rewarding, challenging and dense novel packed full of characters, subplots, war profiteering, murder, and everything else we’ve come to expect from Ellroy. It is a direct follow up to Perfidia following the same characters and picking up right where that novel left off so reading that one first is a must.
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- James Ellroy
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Jun 4, 2019 · “This storm, this savaging disaster.” Of course the Second World War is the storm, the savaging disaster, but really and truly, at the end of the day, History herself is the storm, brutalizing, unrelenting, unforgiving. Naturally, also, the novel begins on New Year’s eve, and there is a storm, your typical perfunctory rainstorm.
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- Hardcover
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Jun 3, 2019 · June 3, 2019. This Storm by James Ellroy is a massive novel of World War II Los Angeles—when torrential rainstorms hit the city, a body is unearthed in Griffith Park. The cops rate it a routine dead-man job. They’re grievously wrong. I’ve been reading the Demon Dog of American Literature since I stumbled across The Black Dahlia in 1987.
A massive novel of World War II Los Angeles. The crowning work of an American master. It is January, 1942. Torrential rainstorms hit L.A. A body is unearthed in Griffith Park. The cops rate it a routine dead-man job. They're grievously wrong. It's a summons to misalliance and all the spoils of a brand-new war.
