The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women - Softcover

Ellroy, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099537850 ISBN 13: 9780099537854

Publisher: Windmill Books, 2011

Synopsis

The Hilliker Curse Describes the author's shattered childhood, his delinquent teens, his writing life, his love affairs and marriages, his nervous breakdown and the beginning of a relationship with an extraordinary woman who may just be the long-sought Her. Full description

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Review:

"A remarkable memoir ... Hugely enjoyable" (The Economist)

"We turn the pages gripped with a rubbernecker's fascination ... It is ugly, beautiful, reprehensible and moving. In other words, a hard book to forget" (Irish Times)

"High-octane ... A breathless piece of writing ... When it comes to pinning down the most startling possible word collision, Ellroy's acrobatic pizzazz is beyond doubt ... This is literary knife-throwing at its most exhilarating and dangerous" (Julie Myerson Guardian)

"A painfully honest book, written in Ellroy's usual blunt, breathless but often starkly beautiful prose ... a marvellous read, sly, self-mocking and filled with troubling insight" (Time Out)

"James Ellroy's crime novels have been much acclaimed for their dark plots, tough prose and generally bleak view of the world. Now that he's brought those same qualities to bear on a history of his relationships with women, the result, inevitably, is not for the faint-hearted ... Ellroy writes with such swagger and certainty that it's hard not to be swept along. He also - let's face it - has quite a tale to tell" (Daily Mail)

Book Description:

A raw, explicit memoir as high-intensity and riveting as any of Ellroy's novels. The theme: the author's obsessive pursuit of women.

About this edition

• Publisher: Windmill Books
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0099537850
• ISBN 13: 9780099537854
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224