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My Dark Places
de Ellroy, James
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Firmado
- First
- Estado
- Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0679441859
- ISBN 13
- 9780679441854
- Librería
-
Modesto, California, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York, NY: Knopf. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1996. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0679441859 . SIGNED EDITION. This copy has been signed by the author on the first free page. The book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "Ellroy credits the public libraries of Los Angeles County as the basis of his writing. He shelved books at the public library. In a speech at the Library of Congress in 2019 he declared: "I am a product of the L. A. County Public Library System." During his teens and 20s, he drank heavily and abused Benzedrex inhalers. He was engaged in minor crimes (especially shoplifting, house-breaking, and burglary) and was often homeless. After serving some time in jail and suffering from pneumonia, during which he developed an abscess on his lung "the size of a large man's fist," Ellroy stopped drinking and began working as a golf caddie while pursuing writing. He later said, "Caddying was good tax-free cash and allowed me to get home by 2 p. M. And write books.... I caddied right up to the sale of my fifth book." " (from Wikipedia); Signed by Author .
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
- S. Howlett-West Books (member of ABAA & ILAB)
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- A48198
- Título
- My Dark Places
- Autor
- Ellroy, James
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- Edición
- 1st Edition; 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0679441859
- ISBN 13
- 9780679441854
- Editorial
- Knopf
- Lugar de publicación
- New York, NY
- Fecha de publicación
- 1996
- Palabras clave
- 0679441859, True Crime, James Ellroy, Biography, Memoir, Murder, Mystery
- Catálogos del vendedor
- TRUE CRIME;
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Sobre el vendedor
S. Howlett-West Books (member of ABAA & ILAB)
Miembro de Biblio desde 2003
Modesto, California
Sobre S. Howlett-West Books (member of ABAA & ILAB)
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