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James Ellroy at Town Hall Seattle on Thurs. October 8 at 7:30 p.m.

JAMES ELLROY Thursday, October 8 at 7:30 p.m. at Town Hall Seattle

Presented by THE ELLIOTT BAY BOOK COMPANY. 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 1995s 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 starting September 5. Town Hall Seattle is at 1119 Eighth Avenue (at Seneca). For more information on this evening, please call Elliott Bay at 206.624.6600.