by James Ellroy · Pearson Education Limited · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780582364738
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«L.A. Confidential» is the crime novel by James Ellroy published by Pearson Education in the Penguin Readers series in paperback (112 pages, in English).
Set in Los Angeles in 1951, the story follows three LAPD detectives, Ed Exley, Jack Vincennes and Bud White, as a violent incident brings to light police corruption and the secrets each carries from his past. It is an abridged version of Ellroy's novel, intended for students of English.
Third instalment of the L.A. Quartet, in an abridged Penguin Readers edition, published in 2000.
Recommended reading for intermediate-level students of English, from around 12 years old.
Lee Earle "James" Ellroy is an American crime fiction writer and essayist. Ellroy has become known for a telegrammatic prose style in his most recent work, wherein he frequently omits connecting words and uses only short, staccato sentences, and in particular for the novels The Black Dahlia (1987) and L.A. Confidential (1990).
