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Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0679441859
ISBN-13: 9780679441854
Nov 1996
Publisher: Random House Inc
351 pages
Language: English |
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* ML=ships from multiple locations, AE/AP/AA=ships from U.S. Military location.
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| Size | | Length: | 351 pages | | Height: | 9.8 in | | Width: | 7.0 in | | Thickness: | 1.5 in | | Weight: | 26.4 oz |
Publisher's Notes
First Line: "Some kids found her. They were Babe Ruth League players, out to hit a few shag balls. Three adult coaches were walking behind them."
Industry Reviews
"...[T]here are long portions of 'My Dark Places' that will remind Mr. Ellroy's readers of his novels....Because Mr. Ellroy recounts all the dead ends, all the wild goose chases, all the tips that failed to pan out, his narrative sometimes feels frustratingly elliptical and static. In taking us through their work, step by step, however, he also conveys to us the painstaking nature of police work and the grueling emotions he experienced as his mother's would-be avenger."
New York Times - Michiko Kakutani (11/06/1996)
"Although, without doubt, Ellroy would have liked to have nailed his mother's killer, what he craved, beyond justice, was catharsis."
Literary Review - Philip Oakes (11/19/1996)
"Well known for genre-mixing and -bending, Ellroy here makes his biggest leap yet: a true-crime detective story, an L.A. social history and a kind of romance. The result of a twisted literary memoir, the white-hot spinning of a loner and autodidact."
Nation - Emily Gordon (12/02/1996)
"'My Dark Places' is an important book for the genre because, like most valuable crime books, it transcends the genre. It speaks of bleak tragedy and a search for a lost boy and his equally lost mother far more than it solves a mystery."
Washington Post Book World - Ann Rule (11/24/1996)
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