ELLROY READS – Luther by John Osborne

For the latest episode of Ellroy Reads I look at John Osborne’s play Luther. This has to be one most unique texts I have covered on the show as it not a hardboiled or noir narrative in any way. Rather, it is a text that has inspired Ellroy’s Christian faith, and yet Osborne, the heavy-drinking womanising English playwright, is no one’s idea of an evangelist.

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