TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ellroy,James
TI  - My dark places : an L A crime memoir 
SN  - 9780679762058
AV  - PS3555.L6274 Z466 1996
U1  - 813 22
PY  - 1996///
CY  - New York 
PB  - Vintage Books
KW  - Ellroy, James,
KW  - Novelists, American
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Family relationships
KW  - Mothers and sons
KW  - California
KW  - Los Angeles
KW  - Murder
KW  - Los Angeles (Calif.)
KW  - Social conditions
N2  - Jean Ellroy was murdered in 1958. Her body was dumped on a roadway in a run-down L.A. suburb. The killer was never found. The case was closed. It was a sordid back-page homicide that nobody remembered. Except her son; James Ellroy was ten years old when his mother died. His bereavement was complex and ambiguous. He grew up obsessed with murdered women and crime. His life spun hellishly out of control. He ran from the ghost of Jean Ellroy. He became a writer of radically provocative and best-selling crime novels. He tried to reclaim his mother through fiction. It didn't work. He quit running and wrote this memoir; My Dark Places is Jean Ellroy's 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 James Ellroy undertook to find Jean Ellroy's killer. My Dark Places is unflinching autobiography and vivid reportage. It is no less than a treatise on 38 years of American murder. It is James Ellroy's journey into and through his most forbidding memories
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