James Ellroy: The Hilliker Curse (USA 2011) From the Publisher: The year was 1958. Jean Hilliker had divorced her hustler husband and resurrected her maiden name. Her son, James, was ten years old. In a dark moment, he "summoned her dead." Three months later she was murdered. The curse was evoked, and James Ellroy began his unending pursuit of women. Here, he unsparingly describes his shattered childhood, his delinquent teens, his writing life, his love affairs and marriages, his nervous breakdown, and the beginning of a relationship with an extraordinary woman who may just be the long-sought Her. A startling revelation, a treatise on guilt and the power of malediction, and above all, a heartfelt confession, The Hilliker Curse is a brilliant, soul-baring revelation of self. James Ellroy: The Hilliker Curse. My Pursuit of Women. Vintage, ISBN: 9780307477392 (September, 2011), 224 p., $14.95.
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James Ellroy: The Hilliker Curse (UK 2011) From the Publisher: James Ellroy: The Hilliker Curse. My Pursuit of Women. A Memoir. Windmill Books, ISBN: 9780099537854 (June, 2011), 203 p., £8.99.
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James Ellroy: The Hilliker Curse (UK 2010) From the Publisher: James Ellroy: The Hilliker Curse. My Pursuit of Women. A Memoir. William Heinemann, ISBN: 9780434020645 (September, 2010), 203 p., £17.99.
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James Ellroy: The Hilliker Curse (USA 2010) From the Publisher: The year was 1958. Jean Hilliker had divorced her fast-buck hustler husband and resurrected her maiden name. Her son, James, was ten years old. He hated and lusted after his mother and "summoned her dead." She was murdered three months later. The Hilliker Curse is a predator's confession, a treatise on guilt and on the power of malediction, and above all, a cri de cur. James Ellroy unsparingly describes his shattered childhood, his delinquent teens, his writing life, his love affairs and marriages, his nervous breakdown, and the beginning of a relationship with an extraordinary woman who may just be the long-sought Her. A layered narrative of time and place, emotion and insight, sexuality and spiritual quest, The Hilliker Curse is a brilliant, soul-baring revelation of self. It is unlike any memoir you have ever read. James Ellroy: The Hilliker Curse. My Pursuit of Women. A Memoir. Alfred A. Knopf, ISBN: 9780307593504 (September, 2010), 203 p., $24.95.
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