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THE HILLIKER CURSE: My Pursuit of Women: A Memoir
by Ellroy, James
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0307593509
- ISBN 13
- 9780307593504
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About This Item
New York, New York, U.S.A. : Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 2010. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The year was 1958. James Ellroy was ten years old. His mother, Jean Hilliker, had divorced her fast-buck hustler husband. She gave her son a choice: live with his father or her. He chose his father, and Jean-"half gassed"-attacked him. He wished her dead. Three months later, she was murdered. Ellroy writes, "I owe her for every true thing that I am. I must remove the malediction I have placed on her and on myself," and in THE HILLIKER CURSE, he narrates his quest for "atonement in women." He unsparingly describes his shattered childhood, his delinquent teens, his writing life, his love affairs and marriages, a nervous breakdown and the beginning of a relationship with an extraordinary woman who may just be the long-sought Her. It is a layered narrative of time and place, emotion and insight, sexuality and spiritual quest. And all of it is reported with gut-wrenching and heart-rending candor. A brilliant and soul-baring revelation of self-and unlike any memoir you have ever read. Fine, first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. [Not remainder-marked or price-clipped] BUND
Synopsis
James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. He is the author of the Underwold U.S.A. Trilogy— American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand, and Blood’s A Rover— and the L.A. Quartet novels, The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, and White Jazz . 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. The Cold Six Thousand was a New York Times Notable Book and a Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2001. He lives in Los Angeles. http://jamesellroy.net/
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- Joe Staats, Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 025262
- Title
- THE HILLIKER CURSE: My Pursuit of Women: A Memoir
- Author
- Ellroy, James
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0307593509
- ISBN 13
- 9780307593504
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 2010
- Pages
- 203
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
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