The Hilliker Curse

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The year was 1958. Jean Hllliker had divorced her fast-buck hustler husband and resurrected her maiden name. Her son,%
James, was ten years old. He hated and lusted for his ^ moth^ and 'summoned her dead'. She was murdered {hr^^ -i^fe -^months later - -- ¦ ' ^^^^
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guilt and the power of malediction, and above all a cr/ dé ^ I icceur. Ellroy unsparingly describes tiis shattered childhoodr 3
his delinquent teens, his writing life, his love affairs and I marriages, his nervous breakdown and the beginning of f relationship witli^an extraordinary woman who may just be^ É
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Fülszöveg

'We turn the pages gripped with á rubberneclcer's fascination It is ugly, beautiful, reprehensible and moving a hard book
to forgeV Irish Times
. ' -i* »t.^ ^ I
• I' ¦

i •t.i.i«»' ¦


; - :. J --
\ Í ^Kxffitj! '^S®^ ' ¦¦¦
The year was 1958. Jean Hllliker had divorced her fast-buck hustler husband and resurrected her maiden name. Her son,%
James, was ten years old. He hated and lusted for his ^ moth^ and 'summoned her dead'. She was murdered {hr^^ -i^fe -^months later - -- ¦ ' ^^^^
f The ///Mer Ci/rse is á predator's confession^ a treatise on
guilt and the power of malediction, and above all a cr/ dé ^ I icceur. Ellroy unsparingly describes tiis shattered childhoodr 3
his delinquent teens, his writing life, his love affairs and I marriages, his nervous breakdown and the beginning of f relationship witli^an extraordinary woman who may just be^ É
^c the long-sought Her. ' _ ^,ij
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insight' Time Ouf
'A stark renditien of murder; nervous breakdown, affairs, divorces and much more. It's an incredibly frank and soul-baring piece of writing which goes some way to explaining the extreme and obsessive nature of Ellroy's brilliant novels'S/g test/e
Riveting this is the most addictive of reads about life,leve and self-discovery, in astonishing, soul-baring detail. An unforgettable
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'Fascinating . seductive .,. unputdownable' Even/ng Standard
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