The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women

ISBN-13: 9780099537854 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 224 str.

James Ellroy

Opis

The year was 1958. Jean Hilliker had divorced her fast-buck hustler husband and resurrected her maiden name. Her son, James, was 10 years old. He hated and lusted for his mother and 'summoned her dead'. She was murdered three months later. This book is a predator's confession and a treatise on guilt.

Recenzje

A remarkable memoir ... Hugely enjoyable The Economist

O autorze

James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. He is the author of the acclaimed 'L.A. Quartet': The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential and White Jazz. His novel Blood's A Rover completes the magisterial 'Underworld USA Trilogy' - the first two volumes of which (American Tabloid and The Cold Six Thousand) were both Sunday Times bestsellers. His last novel Widespread Panic received wide praise, with The Times calling it 'extraordinary'.