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My Dark Places
by Ellroy, James
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0712675884
- ISBN 13
- 9780712675888
- Seller
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Northfield, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
London: Century, 1996. Ellroy combines true crime with autobiography as he investigates the 1958 murder of his mother. Second British printing. Spine ends gently bumped, pages lightly tanned with a bit of foxing to the edges of the text block. Small crimp to the spine head of the Brodart covered jacket. Signed by Ellroy on the title page.. Signed by Author. Hard Cover. Very Good/Near Fine.
Synopsis
"Astonishing . . . original, daring, brilliant." --Philadelphia InquirerIn 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 From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- MLC Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- D200247
- Title
- My Dark Places
- Author
- Ellroy, James
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0712675884
- ISBN 13
- 9780712675888
- Publisher
- Century
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1996
- Bookseller catalogs
- True Crime; Biography/Autobiography;
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About the Seller
MLC Books
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Northfield, Minnesota
About MLC Books
MLC Books has been selling online since 2006, with a heavy emphasis on vintage and collectible crime fiction, other fiction, and books related to Minnesota. A diverse general stock available as well.
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- Text Block
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