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My Dark Places: A True Crime Autobiography

James Ellroy

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In 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 - author of "American Tabloid" and "White Jazz" - tells what happened when he teamed up with a brilliant homicide cop to investigate a murder that everyone else had forgotten - and to reclaim the mother he had despised, desired, but never dared to love. What ensues is an epic of loss, fixation, and redemption, a memoir that is also a history of the American way of violence.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Vintage
  • Publish Date: Aug 19th, 1997
  • Pages: 448
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.00in - 5.20in - 1.10in - 0.80lb
  • EAN: 9780679762058
  • Categories: • Murder - General• Literary Figures• Memoirs

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About the Author

James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. He is the author of the L.A. Quartet: The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, and White Jazz, and the Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy: American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand, and Blood's A Rover. These seven novels have won numerous honors and were international best sellers. He is also the author of two collections, Crime Wave and Destination: Morgue! and two memoirs My Dark Places and The Hilliker Curse. Ellroy currently lives in Denver, Colorado.

www.jamesellroy.net

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Tweeting 1-star Goodreads reviews of books I love for perspective, day 18: “Writes like a 9 year old. STINKS. Do Not Want. Avoid” —Marsmannix’s 1-star review of James Ellroy’s My Dark Places.

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Happy Birthday to the bad boy of crime fiction, James Ellroy, 1948, Los Angeles. Best known for his LA Quartet - most especially LA CONFIDENTIAL (1990). He is the son of a murdered woman and investigated her murder, culminating in the book MY DARK PLACES (1996). https://t.co/ooe8isnz1k

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@RPMirabella Yes, I do! Paradise by Toni Morrison Underground Railroad by C. Whitehead Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon My Dark Places by James Ellroy Those are off the top of my head. I can dig up more.

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Praise for this book

"Ellroy is more powerful than ever."
--The Nation

"Astonishing . . . original, daring, brilliant."
--Philadelphia Inquirer

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