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This title in other editionsThe Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Womenby James Ellroy
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:The legendary crime writer gives us a raw, brutally candid memoir—as high intensity and as riveting as any of his novels—about his obsessive search for “atonement in women.”
The year was 1958. Jean Hilliker had divorced her fast-buck hustler husband and resurrected her maiden name. Her son, James, was ten years old. He hated and lusted after his mother and “summoned her dead.” She was murdered three months later. The Hilliker Curse is a predator’s confession, a treatise on guilt and on the power of malediction, and above all, a cri de “ur. James Ellroy 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 extraordinary woman who may just be the long-sought Her. A layered narrative of time and place, emotion and insight, sexuality and spiritual quest, The Hilliker Curse is a brilliant, soul-baring revelation of self. It is unlike any memoir you have ever read. Synopsis:James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. He is the
Synopsis:The best-selling author of the L. A. Quartet presents a follow-up to his Time Best Book of the Year memoir, My Dark Places, that imparts his guilt over his mother's murder shortly after he wished her dead at the age of 10, in a tribute that considers his mother's role in shaping his relationships and views on women. 150,000 first printing.
About the AuthorJames Ellroy is the author of the Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy—American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand, and Blood’s A Rover—and the L. A. Quartet—The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L. A. Confidential, and White Jazz. His novel 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. His novel The Cold Six Thousand was a New York Times Notable Book and a Los Angeles Times Best Book for 2001. Ellroy lives in Los Angeles.
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