Dialogue and narration in Ellroy novels often consists of a "heightened pastiche of jazz slang, cop patois, creative profanity and drug vernacular" with a particular use of period-appropriate slang. He often employs stripped-down staccato sentence structures, a style that reaches it's apex in The Cold Six Thousand and which Ellroy describes as " direct, shorter-than-longer sentence style that's declarative and ugly and right there, punching you in the nards".
excerpt from
Ellroy review in Justforbooks.tumblr.com
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Alain Garrigue
https://justforbooks.tumblr.com/post/644717518661042176/lee-earle-james-ellroy-was-born-on-march-4
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