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Uncompromising memoir of obsession and redemption.
My Dark Places is a haunting, true crime story that will leave readers on the edge of their seats. James Ellroy's vivid prose is as captivating as it is painful, as he delves deep into the seedy underbelly of Los Angeles in search of a killer--and closure for his mother's murder. The most remarkable part of the book is Ellroy's honest and raw exploration of his own emotions and how his mother's death influenced his life. This book is for fans of true crime and memoirs who are not afraid to confront the darkest parts of humanity and themselves.
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ISBN: 9780679762058
Estimated First-hand Retail Price: $29.52
Authors:
James Ellroy
Publisher: Vintage
Date of Publication: 1997-08-19
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 3.85
(rated by 7076 readers)
Description
"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. It's hard to imagine a more psychologically treacherous, more self-exposing way in which to write about true crime. The New York Times calls it a "strenuously involving book.... Early on, Mr. Ellroy makes a promise to his dead mother that seems maudlin at first: 'I want to give you breath.' But he's done just that and--on occasion--taken ours away."
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Uncompromising memoir of obsession and redemption.
My Dark Places is a haunting, true crime story that will leave readers on the edge of their seats. James Ellroy's vivid prose is as captivating as it is painful, as he delves deep into the seedy underbelly of Los Angeles in search of a killer--and closure for his mother's murder. The most remarkable part of the book is Ellroy's honest and raw exploration of his own emotions and how his mother's death influenced his life. This book is for fans of true crime and memoirs who are not afraid to confront the darkest parts of humanity and themselves.
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