The Hilliker curse [my pursuit of women]
Record details
- ISBN: 9780307875884 (electronic audio bk.)
- ISBN: 0307875881 (electronic audio bk.)
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Physical Description:
electronic resource
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1 sound file : digital. - Edition: Library ed.
- Publisher: New York : Books on Tape, 2010.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Duration: 07:43:34. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by the author. |
System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console (WMA file size: 111025 KB; MP3 file size: 217623 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Subject: | Ellroy, James -- 1948- -- Relations with women Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Family relationships Mothers -- Death -- Psychological aspects |
Genre: | Audiobooks. Downloadable audio books. |
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Summary:
From "one of the great American writers of our time" (Los Angeles Times Book Review): a raw, explicit memoir as high-intensity and riveting as any of his novels. The year was 1958. James Ellroy was ten years old. His mother, Jean Hilliker, had divorced her fast-buck hustler husband. She gave her son a choice: live with his father or her. He chose his father, and Jean--"half gassed"--attacked him. He wished her dead. Three months later, she was murdered...