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The Hilliker Curse

By James Ellroy

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The Hilliker Curse

By James Ellroy

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Legendary crime writer James Ellroy gives us a searing, candid memoir about his obsession with women, his related search for atonement, and his literary career. The year was 1958. Jean Hilliker had divorced her hustler husband and resurrected her maiden name. Her son, James, was ten years old. In a dark moment, he "summoned her dead." Three months later she was murdered. The curse was evoked, and James Ellroy began his unending pursuit of women. Here, he unsparingly describes his shattered childhood, his delinquent teens, his writing life, his love affairs and marriages, his nervous breakdown, and the beginning of a relationship with an extraordinary woman who may just be the long-sought Her. A startling revelation, a treatise on guilt and the power of malediction, and above all, a heartfelt confession, The Hilliker Curse is a brilliant, soul-baring revelation of self.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
226
Release Date:
2011-09-06
Publication Date:
2011-09-06
Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0307477398
ISBN13:
9780307477392
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
288 g
Height:
132 cm
Width:
203 cm
Thickness:
13 cm
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