{"product_id":"the-big-somewhere-steven-powell-9781501361678","title":"The Big Somewhere: Essays on James Ellroy's Noir World","description":"James Ellroy's identity as a crime writer is rooted in his extraordinary life story and relationship with his home city of Los Angeles. Beginning with the unsolved murder of his mother, Geneva Hilliker Ellroy, in 1958, Ellroy's early life played a large role in shaping his obsessions with murder, the criminal underworld of L.A. and the redemptive power of the feminine. Ellroy's life could be seen as a brutal, visceral and emotionally exhausting realisation of the American Dream, a theme he has explored in his writing to the extent that he is credited with reinventing crime fiction. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Big Somewhere: Essays on James Ellroy's Noir World\u003c\/i\u003e is an in-depth, scholarly study of the work of James Ellroy, featuring leading Ellroy scholars such as Anna Fl?ge, Jim Mancall and Rodney Taveira. Moving from Ellroy's early detective novels to his later epic works of historical fiction, it explores how Ellroy found his place in the history of the genre by building on, and then surpassing, the works of authors who influenced him such as Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and Joseph Wambaugh. It also examines Ellroy's impact on contemporary writers and on the cultural perception of L.A., which has been his legacy through the L.A. Quartet novels.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 'Big Somewhere' is not a geographical location, but a conglomeration of the cinematic, historical and fictional worlds that influenced Ellroy, from film noir to the Kennedy era in American politics, and on which he, in turn, has left his mark.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Steven Powell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501361678\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501361678\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/23\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.67lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.47d","brand":"Steven Powell","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43983562342655,"sku":"9781501361678","price":44.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_44d3c820-f737-4c36-931b-492dad200cd6.jpg?v=1683267385","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-big-somewhere-steven-powell-9781501361678","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}