The Hilliker Curse : My Pursuit of Women
Author(s): James Ellroy
General Information
- :
- : Cornerstone
- : Windmill Books
- : 0.217
- : 01 May 2011
- : 01 July 2011
- : books
Other Specifications
- : James Ellroy
- : Paperback
- : 811
- : 813.54
- : 224
More About The Product
A raw, explicit memoir as high-intensity and riveting as any of Ellroy's novels. The theme: the author's obsessive pursuit of women.
As fascinating as it is at times utterly disturbing.- "Entertainment Weekly Crime writer James Ellroyâ's most compelling mystery story has always been his own . . . But "The Hilliker Curse" is not meant to be merely a confession. It is an act of creation . . . There's a truth of feeling in it, too, an underlying sense of what it is actually like to live in the vortex of an impossible yearning . . . Ellroy is expert and relentless at dramatizing the effects [of his obsession]. - "Wall Street Journal" This latest book is Ellroy's most intimate and personal . . . It's forceful and unsparing in its revelations . . . [His sentences] make you grateful to read his prose, with its marvelous fury, passion and energy. They also compel you to keep rooting for him. - "San Francisco Chronicle"
James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. He is the author of the acclaimed 'LA Quartet': The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, LA Confidential and White Jazz. His most recent novel, Blood's a Rover, completes the magisterial 'Underworld USA Trilogy' - the first two volumes of which (American Tabloid and The Cold Six Thousand) were both Sunday Times bestsellers.