My Dark Places
by Ellroy, James
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 1873567286
- ISBN 13
- 9781873567289
- Seller
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The Woodlands, Texas, United States
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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
- Good Books In The Woods (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 61096
- Title
- My Dark Places
- Author
- Ellroy, James
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- Limited Signed Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1873567286
- ISBN 13
- 9781873567289
- Publisher
- Scorpion Press
- Place of Publication
- Blakeney, Great Britain
- Date Published
- 1996
- Keywords
- 1873567286
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