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The Big Nowhere

James Ellroy

1988406 pagesabout 6–9 hours
1988
first published
  • 1988The Mysterious Press · 406 pages · ENGISBN 9780892962839
  • 1988Books On Tape · ENGISBN 9785557099790
  • 1992RH Canada UK Dist · 416 pages · ENGISBN 9780712634458
  • 1990Warner Books · ENGISBN 9780445772854
  • 1998Grand Central Publishing · 416 pages · ENGISBN 9780446674379
  • 2005Arrow Books Ltd · 496 pagesISBN 9780099366614
  • 1990Books on Tape, Inc.ISBN 9780736618496
  • 1989Mysterious Press · ENGISBN 9780445408326

The author of *The Black Dahlia* presents the powerful second novel in his L.A. Quartet. In *The Big Nowhere*, three men are caught up in a massive web of ambition, perversion and deceit. A remarkably vivid portrait of a remarkable time and place.

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AtmosphereNoir

How it reads

Plot intensityEventful

When and where

ThemesJustice
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