James Ellroy (2009)
PS3555.L6274 B57 2009
History as it might have happened; and probably did. James Ellroy’s Blood’s A Rover (the title is taken from an A.E. Houseman poem) completes his Underworld U.S.A Trilogy that began with one of the great novels of the late 20th century, American Tabloid, followed by the Cold Six Thousand.
Do you think you know what really happened with the Kennedy and King assassinations, Cuba, Jimmy Hoffa, organized crime, J. Edgar Hoover, Howard Hughes, the 1968 Democratic Party convention in Chicago, the Civil Rights movement, the war in Vietnam and all of the turbulent events that comprise the 1960’s in the U.S.A. and continue to shape our lives? Written at a pace in a prose style that makes Blood’s A Rover a page turner, Ellroy challenges conventional wisdom and accepted accounts of the 60’s and produces a noir thrilling plausible (and perhaps “true”) alternate history of America that would even have the heads of conspiracy theorists spinning! No wonder Blood’s A Rover has been called “Brilliant” – Minneapolis Star Tribune; “Wild and brilliant, dazzlingly and funny” – LA Times; and,”Drop-dead great” – Austin American Statesman: you have to experience it to believe it.
