The Glitter Dome - Hardcover

Wambaugh, Joseph

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0688002072 ISBN 13: 9780688002077

Publisher: William Morrow & Co, 1981

Synopsis

Four sets of police partners work in Hollywood, enmeshed in the glamour and the grime, the hustle and the horror, and then try to forget their problems in their after-hours watering hole

About this title

About the Author:

Joseph Wambaugh is the hard-hitting bestselling writer who conveys the passionate immediacy of a special world. He was a police officer with the LAPD for 14 years before retiring in 1974, during which time he published three bestselling novels. Over the course of his career, Wambaugh has been the author of more than 20 works of fiction and nonfiction, all written in his gritty, distinctive noir-ish style. He's won multiple Edgar Awards, and several of his books have been made into feature films and TV movies. He lives in California with his wife.

Review:

“Let us dispel forever the notion that Mr. Wambaugh is only a former cop who happens to write books. . . . This would be tantamount to saying that Jack London was first and foremost a sailor. Mr. Wambaugh is, in fact, a writer of genuine power, style, wit and originality.” —The New York Times Book Review “Wambaugh’s cops, like the soldiers in Catch-22, are men and women in a frenzy, zany grotesques made that way by the outrageous nature of the things they deal with.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review “[Wambaugh is] a good writer who becomes better with each successive book.” —The Detroit News “Wambaugh sidesteps all the clichés.” —The Baltimore Sun

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow & Co
• Publication date: 1981
• ISBN 10: 0688002072
• ISBN 13: 9780688002077
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 299