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James Ellroy My Dark Places
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Title: My Dark Places
Author: James Ellroy
Read By: Michael Prichard
Copyright: 1996
Audiobook Copyright: 1997
Genre: Memoir
Publisher: Books On Tape
Abridged: No
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Media: Tape
Number: 10
Source: Library
Condition: Good
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Number of MP3s: 20
Total Duration: 14:52:32
Total MP3 Size: 408.80 MB
Parity Archive: No
MPEG CRC file: NO
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My Dark Places
FROM OUR EDITORS
The Barnes & Noble Review
October 1997
From the author of L.A. Confidential comes My Dark Places, an investigative
autobiography by James Ellroy. In 1958,
Ellroy's mother, Jean, was raped, killed, and dumped off a road in El Monte, California, a rundown L.A. suburb. The killer was never found, and the case was closed. It was a sordid, back-page homicide that no one remembered. Except her son.
James Ellroy was ten years old when his mother died. His bereavement was complex and ambiguous: "I cried. I cranked tears out all the way to L.A. I hated her. I hated El Monte. Some unknown killer just bought me a brand-new beautiful life." He grew up obsessed with murdered women and crime. He ran from his mother's ghost.
Ellroy became a writer of radically provocative and bestselling crime novels.
"I wear obsession well," he says. "I've turned it into something." He tried to reclaim his mother through fiction. It didn't work. He quit running and wrote this memoir.
My Dark Places is Jean and James Ellroy's story — from 1958 to all points past and up to this moment. It is the story of a brilliant homicide detective named Bill Stoner and of the investigation he and
Ellroy undertook. It is also an unflinching autobiography with vivid reportage.
This is James Ellroy's journey through his most forbidding memories.