The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women
by James Elroy
The legendary crime writer gives us a raw, brutally candid memoir--as high intensity and as riveting as any of his novels--about 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.
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The Hilliker Curse" is a predator's confession, a treatise on guilt and on the power of malediction, and above all, a cri de coeur.""James""Ellroy 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 Curse "is a brilliant, soul-baring revelation of self. It is unlike any memoir you have ever read. "From the Hardcover edition."
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 Curse" is a predator's confession, a treatise on guilt and on the power of malediction, and above all, a cri de coeur.""James""Ellroy 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 Curse "is a brilliant, soul-baring revelation of self. It is unlike any memoir you have ever read. "From the Hardcover edition."
Authors, biographyAuthors, relations with womenDeath, psychological aspectsMothers and sonsNew York Times reviewedAmerican Novelists
RELEASED2010
PUBLISHERBooks on Tape
LANGUAGEEN
Lee Earle "James" Ellroy is an American crime fiction writer and essayist. Ellroy has become known for a telegrammatic prose style in his most recent work, wherein he frequently omits connecting words and uses only short, staccato sentences, and in particular for the novels *The Black Dahlia* (1987), *The Big Nowhere* (1988), *L.A. Confidential* (1990), *White Jazz* (1992), *American Tabloid* (1995), *The Cold Six Thousand* (2001), and *Blood's a Rover* (2009). *-- Wikipedia*
The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women
by James Elroy
The legendary crime writer gives us a raw, brutally candid memoir--as high intensity and as riveting as any of his novels--about 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 Curse" is a predator's confession, a treatise on guilt and on the power of malediction, and above all, a cri de coeur.""James""Ellroy 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 Curse "is a brilliant, soul-baring revelation of self. It is unlike any memoir you have ever read. "From the Hardcover edition."
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 Curse" is a predator's confession, a treatise on guilt and on the power of malediction, and above all, a cri de coeur.""James""Ellroy 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 Curse "is a brilliant, soul-baring revelation of self. It is unlike any memoir you have ever read. "From the Hardcover edition."
Authors, biographyAuthors, relations with womenDeath, psychological aspectsMothers and sonsNew York Times reviewedAmerican NovelistsDeathMothers
RELEASED2010
PUBLISHERBooks on Tape
LANGUAGEEN
Lee Earle "James" Ellroy is an American crime fiction writer and essayist. Ellroy has become known for a telegrammatic prose style in his most recent work, wherein he frequently omits connecting words and uses only short, staccato sentences, and in particular for the novels *The Black Dahlia* (1987), *The Big Nowhere* (1988), *L.A. Confidential* (1990), *White Jazz* (1992), *American Tabloid* (1995), *The Cold Six Thousand* (2001), and *Blood's a Rover* (2009). *-- Wikipedia*
