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MY DARK PLACES

MY DARK PLACES

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MY DARK PLACES

by Ellroy, James

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ISBN 10
0679441859
ISBN 13
9780679441854
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New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,, 1996.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. An L. A. Crime memoir - the true story of the unsolved murder of Ellroy's mother, and of his investigation into her life and death. One of an undisclosed number of copies SIGNED by the author on a blank preliminary page. 353 pp.

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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Bookseller's Inventory #
58465
Title
MY DARK PLACES
Author
Ellroy, James
Format/Binding
SIGNED hardcover first edition -
Book Condition
Used - Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Jacket Condition
like
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
0679441859
ISBN 13
9780679441854
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf,
Place of Publication
New York:
Date Published
1996.
Keywords
true crime, los angeles,
Bookseller catalogs
Mystery - Suspense & Detective Fiction;

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