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My Dark Places : A L.A. Crime Memoir by James Ellroy (1996, Hardcover)

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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.

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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0679441859
ISBN-13
9780679441854
eBay Product ID (ePID)
291201

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Book Title
My Dark Places : a L.A. Crime Memoir
Author
James Ellroy
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Murder / General, Parenting / Motherhood, Literary, Sociology / Urban
Publication Year
1996
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Family & Relationships, Biography & Autobiography, True Crime, Social Science
Number of Pages
355 Pages

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26.1 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Ps3555.L6274z466
Copyright Date
1996
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
96-036673
Dewey Decimal
813/.54 B
Dewey Edition
20

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by alfrebonnabe_0Oct 24, 2017
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I wanted him to find his Mother's killer! I read it in 3 days...compelling and heartbreaking. James Ellroy is a first rate writer.
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by hobie951Mar 13, 2011
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I like the authors work and will enjoy reading about his success in overcoming his turmoils. He's had experiences few people have had. The murder of his mother and subsequent investigation gave him the access to police work few have had, the view of rough police work during the final breaths of childhood. This caused him to learn that life isn't pretty. He has pulled himself up from dispair while making a good living in doing so.
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i WANTED THID BOOK AS i HAD HEARD ABOUT IT AND I LOVE IT
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