Title: My Dark Places
Author(s): James Ellroy
Language: English
Published: 23 September 2009
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 9780679762058
Extension: EPUB
Size: 469 KB
Subjects: General, Family & Relationships, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, Personal Memoirs, Literary, 20th Century, Sociology, Murder, Parenting, Mothers and sons, True Crime, California, Urban, Los Angeles, Los Angeles (Calif.), Family relationships, Motherhood, Novelists; American, Murder - California - Los Angeles, Mothers and sons - California - Los Angeles, Los Angeles (Calif.) - Social conditions, Ellroy; James - Family, Novelists; American - 20th century - Family relationships
Categories: Biography & Autobiography, Sociology, True Crime, Nonfiction
The internationally acclaimed author of the L.A. Quartet and The Underworld USA Trilogy presents another literary masterpiece, this time a true crime murder mystery about his own mother.
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 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.
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