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My Dark Places; An L.A. Crime Memoir
by Ellroy, James
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [11], 5-351, [9] pp. Quarter black cloth over grey paper boards with black lettering on the front board and silver lettering on the spine. Price of $25.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with a few black and white photographs. Signed by the author on the second blank leaf. A touch of wear to the extremities.
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
- Evening Star Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 00001352
- Title
- My Dark Places; An L.A. Crime Memoir
- Author
- Ellroy, James
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1996
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