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001			1932606
005			20220930020015.0
007			Paper bound
008			960917s1996 nyu 000 0aeng
010			_a 96036673
020			_a9780679762058
035			_a(OCoLC)35620247
035			_a(OCoLC)ocm35620247
035			_a(NNC)1932606
040			_aDLC _cDLC _dDLC _dOrLoB-B
043			_an-us-ca _an-us---
050	0	0	_aPS3555.L6274 _bZ466 1996
082			_a813 _222 _bEL-M
100	1		_aEllroy, James _d1948- _922789
245	1	0	_aMy dark places _ban L A crime memoir
260			_aNew York _bVintage Books _c1996
300			_a351p. _c25 cm.
520			_aJean 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.
520	8		_aJames 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.
520	8		_aMy 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.
600	1	0	_aEllroy, James, _d1948- _xFamily. _922790
650		0	_aNovelists, American _y20th century _xFamily relationships. _922791
650		0	_aMothers and sons _zCalifornia _zLos Angeles. _922792
650		0	_aMurder _zCalifornia _zLos Angeles. _922793
651		0	_aLos Angeles (Calif.) _xSocial conditions. _922794
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