My Dark Places: A True Crime Autobiography - Softcover
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 - author of "American Tabloid" and "White Jazz" - tells what happened when he teamed up with a brilliant homicide cop to investigate a murder that everyone else had forgotten - and to reclaim the mother he had despised, desired, but never dared to love. What ensues is an epic of loss, fixation, and redemption, a memoir that is also a history of the American way of violence.
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"The outstanding American crime writer of his generation" (Independent)
"A gripping and quite awesome form of literature" (Express)
"Stunning...extraordinary" (Observer)
"A tour de force of confessional writing" (TLS)
"Ellroy proves that he is more than just a crime writer, he is one of the best and most important writers in America today" (VOX)
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"A gripping and quite awesome form of literature" (Express)
"Stunning...extraordinary" (Observer)
"A tour de force of confessional writing" (TLS)
"Ellroy proves that he is more than just a crime writer, he is one of the best and most important writers in America today" (VOX)
America's greatest crime writer investigates his mother's murder
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- PublisherVintage
- Publication date1997
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- ISBN 13 9780679762058
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