JAMES ELLROY at Town Hall Seattle |
Bringing this compelling three-night Town Hall run to a close on a high note is one of the most distinct 'voices' out there today, James Ellroy. He makes a welcome Seattle return with his largest novel yet—in more ways than one—with the 1968-set Blood's a Rover (Knopf) "Ellroy concludes the scorching trilogy begun with 1995's American Tabloid with a crushing, bravura performance. As ever, his sentences are gems of concision, and his characters—many of whom readers will remember from The Cold Six Thousand and from American history classes—are a motley crew of grotesques often marked by an off-kilter sense of honor: stone bad-asses, in other words ... It's impossible not to read it with a sense of awe. The violence is as frequent as it is extreme, the treachery is tremendous, and the blending of cold ambition and colder political maneuvering is brazen, all of it filtered through diamond-cut prose. It's a stunning and crazy book that could only have been written by the premier lunatic of American letters." - Publishers Weekly. $5 tickets are available at Elliott Bay, via www.brownpapertickets.com, or 1-800-838-3006. Town Hall Seattle is at 1119 Eighth Avenue (at Seneca). For more information on this evening, please call Elliott Bay at (206) 624-6600.
- Street:
- Town Hall Seattle
- Additional:
- 1119 Eighth Avenue
- City:
- Seattle ,
- Province:
- Washington
- Postal Code:
- 98101
- Country:
- United States
