The Hilliker Curse

by Ellroy, James

• ISBN13: 9780307477392
• ISBN10: 0307477398
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-09-06
• Publisher: Vintage

Summary

The legendary crime writer gives us a raw, brutally candid memoiras high intensity and as riveting as any of his novelsabout his obsessive search for "atonement in women." The year was 1958. Jean Hilliker had divorced her fast-buck hustler husband and resurrected her maiden name. Her son, James, was ten years old. He hated and lusted after his mother and "summoned her dead." She was murdered three months later. The Hilliker Curseis a predator's confession, a treatise on guilt and on the power of malediction, and above all, a cri de coeur.JamesEllroy 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 layered narrative of time and place, emotion and insight, sexuality and spiritual quest, The Hilliker Curseis a brilliant, soul-baring revelation of self. It is unlike any memoir you have ever read. From the Hardcover edition.

Author Biography

James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. He is the author of the Underwold U.S.A. Trilogy—American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand, and Blood’s A Rover—and the L.A. Quartet novels, The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, and White Jazz. American Tabloid was Time magazine’s Best Book (fiction) of 1995; his memoir, My Dark Places, was a Time Best Book of the Year and a New York Times Notable Book for 1996. The Cold Six Thousand was a New York Times Notable Book and a Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2001. He lives in Los Angeles.
 
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