Author James Ellroy

Brutality and Beauty in James Ellroy's Noir Novel Perfidia

The Leonard Lopate Show | Dec 22, 2014

Note: Today's Leonard Lopate Show in on tape. This is a rebroadcast of an interview that took place on September 17th, 2014. 

James Ellroy discusses his novel Perfidia, a crime thriller set in Los Angeles during World War II. LA has been a haven for loyal Japanese-Americans—but war fever and race-hate grip the city, and the Japanese internment begins. The hellish murder of a Japanese family becomes a political storm center that brings together—and rips apart—the investigators looking to solve it.

Perfidia by James Ellroy
Perfidia by James Ellroy

 

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