James Ellroy – My Dark Places
Only 1 left in stock
$8.00
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.
Book is in Very Good condition and shows light general wear. There may be slight shelfwear to edges and wraps, however binding will be fully intact and most wear will be superficial. *Image in the listing is stock. There may be variation in the actual product.
| Genre | |
|---|---|
| Condition |
| Categories | Book / Paper Goods, Used Items |
|---|---|
| Stock Level | Only 1 left in stock |
| Share |
Related products
-
Mind Garage – Mind Garage
$35.00 | LP, Used Items, VinylChristian psych-rock from West Virginia Label: RCA Victor – LSP-4218 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo Country: US Released: 1969 VG+/VG
GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych -
Louis Crompton – Homosexuality & Civilization
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“How have major civilizations of the last two millennia treated people who were attracted to their own sex? In a narrative tour de force, Louis Crompton chronicles the lives and […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Stairways To Heaven: Drugs In American Religious History
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“From Native Americans’ use of tobacco for solemnizing oaths to the spread of New Age religious beliefs in Haight-Ashbury coffeehouses, drugs have been intimately associated with [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Amon D??l II* ? Meetings With Menmachines Unremarkable Heroes Of The P…
$12.00 | CD, Used ItemsUnderrated album by UK Amon Duul affiliates. Label: Abstract Sounds – ABT049CD Format: CD, Album, Reissue Country: US Released: 2008 VG+/VG+ Image may not be from actual item.
GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych -
The Essential Mae Brussell: Investigations Of Fascism In America
$35.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“”Mae’s work may be more relevant now than in her heyday. Like those of many other freedom fighters throughout history, the ghost of Mae Brussell will never rest till justice [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Joel Warner – The Curse Of The Marquis De Sade
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsDescribed as both “one of the most important novels ever written” and “the gospel of evil,” 120 Days of Sodom was written by the Marquis de Sade, a notorious eighteenth-century […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction
MORE FROM Memoir
-
Richard Thompson – Beeswing
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn this moving and immersive memoir, Richard Thompson, international and longtime beloved music legend, recreates the spirit of the 1960s, where he found, and then lost, and then found his way [...]
GENRE: Folk / Country, Memoir -
Anne Sexton – A Self-Portrait in Letters
$8.00 | Book / Paper Goods, Used ItemsAn expression of an extraordinary poet’s life story in her own words, this book shows Anne Sexton as she really was in private, as she wrote about herself to family, […]
GENRE: Memoir -
James Ellroy – My Dark Places
$8.00 | Book / Paper Goods, Used ItemsIn 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 […]
GENRE: Memoir -
John Corbett – Pick Up the Pieces: Excursions in Seventies Music
$9.00 | Book, Book / Paper Goods, Print, Used ItemsUnless you lived through the 1970s, it seems impossible to understand it at all. Drug delirium, groovy fashion, religious cults, mega corporations, glitzy glam, hard rock, global unrest—from our [...]
GENRE: Memoir, Non-Fiction -
Varese: A Looking Glass Diary
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsEdgard Victor Achille Charles Varèse (also spelled Edgar Varèse; 22 December 1883 – 2 November 6 1965) was an innovative French-born composer who spent the greater part of his career […]
GENRE: Memoir, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic -
Claude Cahun – Disavowals
$90.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsMemories? Choice morsels. My soul is fragmentary.–from Disavowals Claude Cahun (1894-1954), born Lucy Schwob, was a poet, performer, resistance fighter, prisoner, Surrealist, [...]
GENRE: Memoir