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The Hilliker Curse (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780307477392)
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xThe New York Times bestselling crime writer and author of The Black Dahlia and L.A. Confidential gives us a searing, candid memoir about his obsession with women, his related search for atonement, and his remarkable literary career. - "Forceful and unsparing in its revelations.... Marvelous fury, passion and energy." --San Francisco Chronicle
The year was 1958. Jean Hilliker had divorced her hustler husband and resurrected her maiden name. Her son, James, was ten years old. In a dark moment, he "summoned her dead." Three months later she was murdered. The curse was evoked, and James Ellroy began his unending pursuit of women. Here, he unsparingly describes his 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. A startling revelation, a treatise on guilt and the power of malediction, and above all, a heartfelt confession, The Hilliker Curse is a brilliant, soul-baring revelation of self.
Author: James Ellroy
ISBN-10: 0307477398
ISBN-13: 9780307477392
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 09/06/2011
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.51lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.31w x 0.70d
The year was 1958. Jean Hilliker had divorced her hustler husband and resurrected her maiden name. Her son, James, was ten years old. In a dark moment, he "summoned her dead." Three months later she was murdered. The curse was evoked, and James Ellroy began his unending pursuit of women. Here, he unsparingly describes his 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. A startling revelation, a treatise on guilt and the power of malediction, and above all, a heartfelt confession, The Hilliker Curse is a brilliant, soul-baring revelation of self.
Author: James Ellroy
ISBN-10: 0307477398
ISBN-13: 9780307477392
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 09/06/2011
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.51lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.31w x 0.70d
By James Ellroy
xJAMES ELLROY was born in Los Angeles in 1948. He is the author of the Underwold U.S.A. Trilogy--American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand, and Blood's A Rover--and the L.A. Quartet novels, The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, and White Jazz. American Tabloid was Time magazine's Best Book (fiction) of 1995; his memoir, My Dark Places, was a Time Best Book of the Year and a New York Times Notable Book for 1996. The Cold Six Thousand was a New York Times Notable Book and a Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2001. He lives in Los Angeles.
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