American Tabloid
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Jeff Harding
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James Ellroy
It's 1958. America is about to emerge into a bright new age - an age that will last until the 1,000 days of John F. Kennedy’s presidency.
Three men move beneath the glossy surface of power, men allied to the makers and shakers of the era.
Peter Bondurant, Howard Hughes’ right-hand man, Jimmy Hoffa’s hit man. Kemper Boyd, employed by J. Edgar Hoover to infiltrate the Kennedy clan. Ward Littell, a man seeking redemption in Bobby Kennedy’s drive against organised crime.
The festering discontent of the age that burns brightly in these men’s hearts will go into supernova as the Bay of Pigs ends in calamity, the mob clamours for payback, and 1,000 days end in brutal quietus in 1963.
©1995 James Ellroy (P)2015 Isis Publishing LtdSetze die Serie fort
...the stories are mean, the characters are meaner and usually make a contest out of meanness. The style is an crescendo of "rapid fired phrases and machine gunned stutter of hast descriptions (paraphrasing Owen here)".
The world portrayed- mostly the 40ies, 50ies and 60ies of US history- is unforgiven and only consists of "thirty shades of black"- a hypocritic, double phased chauvinistic, racist , xenophobic and homophobic society, in which bad guys loom: toxic masculines, usually with a soft spot for women in danger and their own moral values, that know how to talk the talk. The usual story is about one or some of those bad guys who think that something is even too fishy "in this stink" and start to act.
Yet, as it is often the case in his novels, this particular story lacks of a clear path and characters I consider worth to follow, by this I mean something else than the usual the usual violent and self righteous/destructive masculines on their "war path through history". After some pages I got the picture:
It vividly portrays some troubled times in US politics'' Cuba, Castro, the Kennedys, the CIA and the mob. however the usual telegram style descriptions of various crimes and staccato style conversations just get tiresome, and withit my will to follow the story until the end evaporates.
the usual sermon
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