My Dark Places A True Crime Autobiography

Name: My Dark Places A True Crime Autobiography
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ISBN: 9780679762058

ISBN-10: 0679762051

ISBN-13: 9780679762058

Edition: N/A

Authors: James Ellroy, James Ellroy

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"Astonishing . . . original, daring, brilliant." --Philadelphia Inquirer 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 tells what happened when he teamed up with a brilliant homicide cop to investigate a murder that everyone else had…

Book details

List price: $17.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 8/19/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 5.21" wide x 8.00" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. His L. A. Quartet novels - "The Black Dahlia", "The Big Nowhere", "L. A. Confidential", & "White Jazz" - were international best-sellers. His novel "American Tabloid" was Time magazine's Novel of the Year for 1995; his memoir, "My Dark Places", was a "Time" Best Book of the Year & a "New Yorker Times" Notable Book for 1996. He lives in Kansas City.