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James Ellroy presented his new book " Blood's A Rover" in Book Soup on Sunset Strip
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"Clay lies still, but blood's a rover;
Breath's a ware that will not keep.
Up, lad; when the journey's over
There'll be time enough for sleep."
"Reveille" by A.E. Housman
On Thursday, October 15, 2009 James Ellroy the author of the
international best seller "LA Confidential" , which became a 1997
feature film directed by Curtis Hanson and starring Kim Basinger and
Russell Crowe, presented his new book "Blood's A Rover" . This political
noir novel is a sequel to "American Tabloid" (Time magazine Best Book
of 1995) and "The Cold Six Thousand" ( Los Angeles Times Best Book for
2001). "Blood's A Rover" marks the conclusion of the underworld
trilogy.
Ellroy started the event by calling himself an agent provocateur and
a "death dog" of American literature, who feels privileged to read
from his new book being surrounded by the volumes of hardcover
books, which Book Soup so carefully curated . He explained that the
main idea behind "Blood's A Rover" is a moral exhaustion of a bad man
seeking salvation. Ellroy said that after his mother's murder which
remained unsolved he transformed his own bereavement into profound
interest in Los Angeles political and social history. Ellroy called it
an interest in a "private infrastructure of a big public event" . He
called "Blood's A Rover" his most explicated book because it described
political conversion and revolution.
The main character in the novel is Don Crutchfield, who is a
window-peeping kid private eye surrounded by right-wing assassins,
left-wing revolutionaries and the power-mongers of the 60s. The novel
is based on a real man. The real Don Crutchfield attended Ellroy's
reading and said a few words. He was a real private eye in Los Angeles
during the 50s and 60s. He worked for Frank Sinatra and Joe DiMaggio. He
helped to "kick down the door" in many Hollywood divorce cases. For
the past thirty years, Mr. Crutchfield had been working for Larry
Flynt and wrote a book called "Confessions of a Hollywood P.I."
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