My Dark Places
An L.A. Crime Memoir
Ellroy, James
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"Astonishing . . . original, daring, brilliant."
--Philadelphia Inquirer
In 1958 Jean Ellroy was murdered, her body dumped on a roadway in a seedy L.A. suburb. Her killer was never found, and the police dismissed her as a casualty of a cheap Saturday night. James Ellroy was ten when his mother died, and he spent the next thirty-six years running from her ghost and attempting to exorcize it through crime fiction. In 1994, Ellroy quit running. He went back to L.A., to find out the truth about his mother--and himself.
In My Dark Places, our most uncompromising crime writer tells what happened when he teamed up with a brilliant homicide cop to investigate a murder that everyone else had forgotten--and reclaim the mother he had despised, desired, but never dared to love. What ensues is a epic of loss, fixation, and redemption, a memoir that is also a history of the American way of violence.
"Ellroy is more powerful than ever."
--The Nation
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0679762051
ISBN(13-digit): 9780679762058
Copyright: 1997
Dewey Decimal: 813/.54
Library of Congress: BL 99792189
Book Publisher: Random House Inc
Language: ENG
Paper Weight (lb): 0.9
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