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Language
  
English

Pages
  
203

Originally published
  
7 September 2010

Page count
  
203

Country
  
United States of America

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Publication date
  
September 7, 2010

ISBN
  
978-0-307-59350-4

Author
  
James Ellroy

Publisher
  
Alfred A. Knopf

OCLC
  
491896235

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Subject
  
Autobiography, relations with women, family relationships, mothers, death, psychological aspect

Media type
  
Print (hardback & paperback) and audio CD, audiobook, audible audio edition, Amazon Kindle

Similar
  
James Ellroy books, Other books

James ellroy s the hilliker curse my pursuit of women


The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women is a work of memoir and autobiography by American author James Ellroy published in 2010. Ellroy dedicated the memoir "To Erika Schickel." The epigraph for The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women is "I will take Fate by the throat. —Ludwig van Beethoven." The hardcover publication is printed on deckle edge paper. The unabridged audiobook version is narrated by Ellroy himself.

Contents

The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women chronicles Ellroy's childhood, his confession of guilt over wishing his mother- Geneva Odelia (née Hilliker) Ellroy- dead, his wild teen life, love affairs, marriages, and finally, his finding of an extraordinary woman whom Ellroy refers to as "Her." It is a narrative of emotion, insight, sexuality, and spiritual quest.

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References

The Hilliker Curse Wikipedia