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MY DARK PLACES: AN L.A. CRIME MEMOIR
de Ellroy, James
- Usado
- Aceptable
- Tapa dura
- Firmado
- First
- Estado
- Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.
- ISBN 10
- 0679441859
- ISBN 13
- 9780679441854
- Librería
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CHICAGO, Illinois, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York City, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition/First Printing. 354 pages. The author's autobiographical account on his mother's murder. One of James Ellroy's finest achievements. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The DJ design is quite brilliant: It shows on the reverse side a reproduction of the front-page headline news on the murder, with a photograph of the boy James Ellroy. The First Edition is now scarce. "Autographed Copy" sticker pasted in front. Presents James Ellroy's "My Dark Places: An L. A. Crime Memoir". A new twist to both the personal biography and detective thriller genres by being a first-person account of his mother's unsolved murder. An event that has haunted him for the rest of his life, James Ellroy unleashes pent-up emotions in a beautifully written reconstruction that is coolly factual and emotionally harrowing at the same time. As he has repeatedly stated, James Ellroy became a writer - and a great one to boot - as a direct result of his mother's death. His remembrance of her, flaws and all, is a still-grieving son's homage, and as such, is one of the most moving by an author in the confessional mode. An absolute "must-have" title for James Ellroy collectors. This Autographed Copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed (initialled/"scrawled") in black ink-pen on the publisher's tipped-in page by James Ellroy. It is also very boldly and beautifully signed (in a more serpentine version that fills up the page) in blue ink-pen on the title page by James Ellroy. This title is a late-modern classic. This is one of relatively few such double-signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online are signed on the tipped-in page only, have serious flaws, or are in subsequent printings. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. One of the most brilliant writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JAMES ELLROY TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0679441859.
Sinopsis
"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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Detalles
- Librería
- Modern Rare
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 23055
- Título
- MY DARK PLACES: AN L.A. CRIME MEMOIR
- Autor
- Ellroy, James
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Fine Dust Jacket.
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition. First Printing.
- ISBN 10
- 0679441859
- ISBN 13
- 9780679441854
- Editorial
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Lugar de publicación
- New York City, NY
- Fecha de publicación
- 1996
- Páginas
- 354
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