James Ellroy Quote
A key-in-lock noise jarred him. He walked into the living room. Mariko had 11:00 a.m. booze breath. He said, Hello, Mother. She spoke slurred Japanese back. He bowed and tried to take her hand. She pulled away and flashed a magazine. A picture bride rag. Choose a photograph and send for a young woman. She’ll be shipped from Japan. Include the five-hundred-dollar steamship fare. All brides guaranteed to be fertile and subservient. I’ve told you, Mother. I’m not going to marry a fifteen-year-old girl out of a brothel. You too old to be bachelor. Neighbors get suspicious.
James Ellroy
A key-in-lock noise jarred him. He walked into the living room. Mariko had 11:00 a.m. booze breath. He said, Hello, Mother. She spoke slurred Japanese back. He bowed and tried to take her hand. She pulled away and flashed a magazine. A picture bride rag. Choose a photograph and send for a young woman. She’ll be shipped from Japan. Include the five-hundred-dollar steamship fare. All brides guaranteed to be fertile and subservient. I’ve told you, Mother. I’m not going to marry a fifteen-year-old girl out of a brothel. You too old to be bachelor. Neighbors get suspicious.
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Lee Earle "James" Ellroy (born March 4, 1948) 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).