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My Dark Places : A True Crime Autobiography by Ellroy, James is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is My Dark Places : A True Crime Autobiography about?

"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 From the Trade Paperback edition.

Who reads My Dark Places : A True Crime Autobiography?

It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Ellroy, James
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published
1997
Language
EN
ISBN
9780307488510
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
True Crime, Memoir, Science
Rating
3.58 / 5 (1,580 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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