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ISBN-10: 0375419152
ISBN-13: 9780375419157
May 2001
Publisher: Random House
Unabridged
Language: English |
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Synopsis
Ellroy's 1995 novel AMERICAN TABLOID is a fictionalized recreation of the days just before President Kennedy's assassination. THE COLD SIX THOUSAND, the sequel to AMERICAN TABLOID, picks up almost where the earlier book leaves off. Taciturn heroes (or is it anti-heroes?) Pete Bondurant and Ward Littell return, to wend their way along the interwoven avenues of American politics and crime. A New York Times Notable Book for 2001.
| Size | | Height: | 6.0 in | | Width: | 3.3 in | | Thickness: | 2.8 in | | Weight: | 18.4 oz |
Industry Reviews
"Ellroy clearly holds that the tabloid/crime format is the only true way of reading that history, and that nothing is sacred. THE COLD SIX THOUSAND is a work of enormous stamina and monomaniacal intensity."
Guardian (London) - Christopher Pettit (04/28/2001)
"James Ellroy has fashioned himself into the anti-DeLillo of American lit. Disarmingly shameless and mediagenic, he is the ambitious, hardboiled materialist to DeLillo's elegizing modernist.... Where Ellroy excels...is in the sheer stamina and Mailerlike nerve of his hypermasculine vision."
Village Voice - Richard Gehr (05/02/2001)
"...THE COLD SIX THOUSAND is...something of an anachronism--a fluid, ominvorous cabal from the 'X-Files' age worked up into an all purpose explanation of postwar America. That it doesn't work, even as fiction, is hardly surprising; that it should be a sequel to the splendid AMERICAN TABLOID is only dismaying."
Washington Post - Chris Lehmann (05/03/2001)
"This was a painful read. Walking around in the heads of unreconstructed racists is no party.... I nearly bailed out after a few chapters and I spent a lot of time cursing the writer and his characters. More than once, my skin creepy-crawled, which of course is the writer's intent."
Baltimore Sun - Jean Thompson (05/06/2001)
"In connecting dots both verifiable and speculative, Ellroy illuminates a through line of post-Kennedy America: the shaping nature of hatred and disillusionment."
Entertainment Weekly - Jeff Jensen (05/11/2001)
"...Ellroy has assembled in one grand fiction all our worst fears about who and what motored events during the remarkable and appalling 15-year period of American history that began with the election of John Kennedy. Read it and quail."
Houston Chronicle - Fritz Lanham (05/17/2001)
"...[F]or all its tough-guy mannerisms, THE COLD SIX THOUSAND isn't depressive enough to be true noir.... Ellroy never seems truly cynical because he's so endlessly jazzed by it all. His enthusiasm for picking up rocks and detailing everything squirming beneath them is bizarrely puppyish and perversely endearing.... 'Reckless' is perhaps a good word to use for this novel; 'verisimilitude,' perhaps not. But either way, it's a wild ride."
New York Times Book Review - Laura Miller (05/20/2001)
"Ellroy does here exactly what he did in AMERICAN TABLOID--take the most overexamined era in 20th-century history, hand the story over to the bad men and the fixers, and make it feel completely new."
Minneapolis Star-Tribune - James Lileks (05/20/2001)
"[A]irtight and yet far-fetched.... This is stunning work."
Chicago Tribune (06/24/2001)
"This is the finest novel of its kind to come out in 2001 and, if there is any order in the universe, it will run off with all the cookies."
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