"406"^^ . . "The Big Nowhere is a 1988 crime fiction novel by James Ellroy, the second of the L.A. Quartet, a series of novels set in 1940s and 1950s Los Angeles. James Ellroy dedicated The Big Nowhere \"To Glenda Revelle.\" The epigraph for The Big Nowhere is a passage from a novel; \"It was written that I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice- Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness.\""@en . . . "PS3555.L6274 B5 1988" . "ISBN 0-89296-283-6 (first edition, hardcover)" . . "The Big Nowhere"@en . "17768709" . . . "813/.54 19" . . . . .