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My Dark Places  - 1st Edition/1st Printing

My Dark Places - 1st Edition/1st Printing

My Dark Places  - 1st Edition/1st Printing
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My Dark Places - 1st Edition/1st Printing

by Ellroy, James

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Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
ISBN 10
0679441859
ISBN 13
9780679441854
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1996. First Edition; First Printing. 1/4 Cloth. 0679441859 . First edition/first printing, one page lightly chipped to top, else unread Fine in alike dust-jacket, little creasing and small closed tear to top. Signed by author James Ellroy on a tipped-in page; My Dark Places is crime writer James Ellroy's autobiographical investigation into his obsession with violence committed against women. He traces this back to his childhood and to the death of his mother when he was only 10; 8vo; Signed by Author .

Synopsis

"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. "Ellroy is more powerful than ever." --The Nation From the Trade Paperback edition.

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Bookseller's Inventory #
18650
Title
My Dark Places - 1st Edition/1st Printing
Author
Ellroy, James
Format/Binding
1/4 Cloth
Book Condition
Used - Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Edition
First Edition; First Printing
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
0679441859
ISBN 13
9780679441854
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1996
Keywords
Collectible Rare Out-Of-Print, Cons Strang

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