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The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women
James Ellroy
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Description for The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women
Paperback. Describes the author's 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. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 196 x 18. Weight in Grams: 214.
America's greatest living 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 for 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 the power of malediction, and above all a cri de cœur. Ellroy unsparingly describes his shattered childhood, his delinquent ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cornerstone
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099537854
SKU
V9780099537854
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About James Ellroy
James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. He is the author of the acclaimed 'LA Quartet': The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, LA Confidential and White Jazz. His most recent novel, Blood's a Rover, completes the magisterial 'Underworld USA Trilogy' - the first two volumes of which (American Tabloid and The Cold Six Thousand) were both Sunday Times ... Read more
Reviews for The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women
A remarkable memoir ... Hugely enjoyable
The Economist
We turn the pages gripped with a rubbernecker's fascination ... It is ugly, beautiful, reprehensible and moving. In other words, a hard book to forget
Irish Times
High-octane ... A breathless piece of writing ... When it comes to pinning down the most startling possible word collision, Ellroy's ... Read more
The Economist
We turn the pages gripped with a rubbernecker's fascination ... It is ugly, beautiful, reprehensible and moving. In other words, a hard book to forget
Irish Times
High-octane ... A breathless piece of writing ... When it comes to pinning down the most startling possible word collision, Ellroy's ... Read more