LoginMy Dark Places
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James Ellroy's trademark is his language: it is sometimes caustically funny and always brazen. When he's hitting on all cylinders, as he is in My Dark Places, his style makes punchy rhythms out of short sentences using lingo such as "scoot" (dollar), "trim" (sex), and "brace" (to interrogate). But the premise for My Dark Places is what makes it especially compelling: Ellroy goes back to his own childhood to investigate the central mystery behind his obsession with violence against women--the death of his mother when he was 10 years old. It's hard to imagine a more psychologically
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Manufacturer: Vintage
Release date: 19 August 1997
ISBN-10 : 0679762051 | ISBN-13: 9780679762058
Release date: 19 August 1997
ISBN-10 : 0679762051 | ISBN-13: 9780679762058
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