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The internationally acclaimed author of the L.A. Quartet and The Underworld USA Trilogy, James Ellroy, presents another literary masterpiece, this time a true crime murder mystery about his own mother.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 "Astonishing . . . original, daring, brilliant." --Philadelphia Inquirer

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I read a lot of books, many of them memoirs and biographies. As of late, I have been complaining about the rise of the "saccharine pop" subgenre, which consists of tell-all books by pseudo-celebrities and plastic stars (i.e. heiresses, reality TV personalities, wannabe rockers, socialites) that lack any substance and are written purely for capital gain. Rest assured, James Ellroy's "My Dark Places" is not one of them. It is, in the simplest terms, the real and raw deal. If memory serves, I can think of no other memoir in which its author conducts a search for his mother's murderer, who may have very well been a misogynistic serial killer. Here is a book that not only lives up to its title, but surpasses it. Ellroy shies away from absolutely nothing in the course of sharing his life story: his budding sexuality (which included experimentation with same-sex friends), his time as a drug addict and petty criminal, his ploy to escape the U.S army, and the fact that he is an avid true crime fan. But all of these things pale in comparison to the fact that his mother was viciously murdered -- strangled, actually -- when he was ten years old.The effect that his mother's killing had on him is undeniable and, indeed, led to the author's obsession with violence against women. After several decades and following his successful writing career, Ellroy decides to hire a detective, called Stoner, in order to help him track down his mother's murderer, who the police failed to apprehend when the crime was relatively fresh. Again, we are spared no details, whether it's regarding the content of the police report or the description of the murder itself. The things Ellroy is forced to read and learn about his mother are things that none of us should ever have to...and the fact that he is willing to share it is a testament to both his courage and his determination to catch the killer himself.Most readers will know Ellroy for his novel that fictionalized the Black Dahlia killing; I personally did not enjoy that book and found it convoluted and disappointing (the movie was its visual equal, believe me). If you feel the same way, you mustn't let that bias you against reading "My Dark Places," otherwise, you'll be missing out. Ellroy's memoir falls into a variety of genres: true crime, memoir, subtle thriller. Though it's not for the squeamish, it is for those who are willing to allow an author to dangle them, however briefly, over his personal dark abyss. Ellroy's book packs one heck of a transgressive literary punch and pimp-smacks the pink-marshmallow prose and gilded garbage of lesser memoirs back to the soiled Hollywood street corners where they belong. It is isn't painfully clear by now, "My Dark Places" comes highly recommended.

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