The Hilliker Curse
Legendary crime writer James Ellroy gives us a searing, candid memoir about his obsession with women, his related search for atonement, and his literary career. 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 extraor…
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- ISBN: 978-0-307-47739-2
- EAN: 9780307477392
- Produktnummer: 19435931
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 224 S.
- Masse: H20.4 cm x B13.1 cm x D2.0 cm 230 g
- Gewicht: 230
Über den Autor
James 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. http://jamesellroy.net/
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