The Hilliker Curse

The Hilliker Curse
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 223
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ISBN-10 : 9780307594327
ISBN-13 : 0307594327
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Book Synopsis The Hilliker Curse by : James Ellroy

Download or read book The Hilliker Curse written by James Ellroy and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-09-07 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestselling crime writer and author of The Black Dahlia and L.A. Confidential gives us a searing, candid memoir about his obsession with women, his related search for atonement, and his remarkable literary career. • “Forceful and unsparing in its revelations.... Marvelous fury, passion and energy.” —San Francisco Chronicle 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.


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