Book : My Dark Places - Ellroy, James

-Titulo Original : My Dark Places

-Fabricante :

Vintage

-Descripcion Original:

The internationally acclaimed author of the L.A. Quartet and The Underworld USA Trilogy presents another literary masterpiece, this time a true crime murder mystery about his own mother.In 1958 Jean Ellroy was murdered, her body dumped on a roadway in a seedy L.A. suburb. Her killer was never found, and the police dismissed her as a casualty of a cheap Saturday night. James Ellroy was ten when his mother died, and he spent the next thirty-six years running from her ghost and attempting to exorcize it through crime fiction. In 1994, Ellroy quit running. He went back to L.A., to find out the truth about his mother--and himself. In My Dark Places, our most uncompromising crime writer tells what happened when he teamed up with a brilliant homicide cop to investigate a murder that everyone else had forgotten--and reclaim the mother he had despised, desired, but never dared to love. What ensues is a epic of loss, fixation, and redemption, a memoir that is also a history of the American way of violence. Review James Ellroys trademark is his language: it is sometimes caustically funny and always brazen. When hes hitting on all cylinders, as he is in My Dark Places, his style makes punchy rhythms out of short sentences using lingo such as scoot (dollar), trim (sex), and brace (to interrogate). But the premise for My Dark Places is what makes it especially compelling: Ellroy goes back to his own childhood to investigate the central mystery behind his obsession with violence against women--the death of his mother when he was 10 years old. Its hard to imagine a more psychologically treacherous, more self-exposing way in which to write about true crime. The New York Times calls it a strenuously involving book.... Early on, Mr. Ellroy makes a promise to his dead mother that seems maudlin at first: I want to give you breath. But hes done just that and--on occasion--taken ours away. Review Ellroy is more powerful than ever.--The Nation Astonishing . . . original, daring, brilliant.--Philadelphia Inquirer From the Back Cover Astonishing . . . original, daring, brilliant. --Philadelphia Inquirer In 1958 Jean Ellroy was murdered, her body dumped on a roadway in a seedy L.A. suburb. Her killer was never found, and the police dismissed her as a casualty of a cheap Saturday night. James Ellroy was ten when his mother died, and he spent the next thirty-six years running from her ghost and attempting to exorcize it through crime fiction. In 1994, Ellroy quit running. He went back to L.A., to find out the truth about his mother--and himself. In My Dark Places, our most uncompromising crime writer tells what happened when he teamed up with a brilliant homicide cop to investigate a murder that everyone else had forgotten--and reclaim the mother he had despised, desired, but never dared to love. What ensues is a epic of loss, fixation, and redemption, a memoir that is also a history of the American way of violence. Ellroy is more powerful than ever. --The Nation About the Author James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. He is the author of the L.A. Quartet: The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, and White Jazz, and the Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy: American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand, and Blood’s A Rover. These seven novels have won numerous honors and were international best sellers. He is also the author of two collections, Crime Wave and Destination: Morgue! and two memoirs My Dark Places and The Hilliker Curse. Ellroy currently lives in Denver, Colorado. jamesellroy Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. My father put me in a cab at the El Monte depot. He paid the driver and told him to drop me at Bryant and Maple.I didnt want to go back. I didnt want to leave my father. I wanted to blow off El Monte forever.It was hot--maybe ten degrees more than L.A. The driver took Tyler north to Bryant a