Hilliker Curse. My Pursuit of Women, Paperback - James Ellroy

America's greatest living crime writer gives us a raw, brutally candid memoir-as high intensity and as riveting as any of his novels-about his obse...

Paperback edition of Ellroy's dark and powerful account of his mother's murder when he was just 10, and his attempt 38 years later to get to the bo...

Reducere. REVIEWS"'Dynasty, ' produced by my dad, Aaron Spelling, sparked the imagination of my friend, Vince Spinnato, and inspired him to turn his dreams o...

From a maestra of invention (The New York Times) who is at once supremely witty, ferociously smart, and emotionally raw, a new collection of poems ...

Reducere. From the author: Sheldon Lord began his career with CARLA, published by Harry Shorten's Midwood Books in 1958. Just about a year later he wrote CAM...

The second novel in the second of Ellroy's }L.A. Quartets{, following on from 2014's }Perfidia{. Dudley Smith is an army captain at this point in t...

Beneath the slick, glittering surface of L.A., an underworld of depravity and wickedness reins. Fritz Brown is a part-time private eye and full-tim...

Publisher: CornerstoneAuthor(s): James EllroyNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 127 x 197 x 27Cover type: Paperback / softbackRe...

Reducere. The Alphabet of Women brings together twenty-six eclectic alliterating poets to tell the story of woman through the sounds and cadences of the alph...

The Big Nowhere , LA Confidential and White Jazz. In his intoduction to The Best American Noir of the Century, James Ellroy writes, "noir is the mo...

A botched liquor store heist leaves three grisly dead. A hero cop is missing. Nobody could see a pattern in these two stray bits of information-no ...

Reducere. Life is not easy in the Soviet Union at mid-20th century, especially for a factory worker who becomes an unwed mother. But Antonina is lucky to get...

Reducere. Robert Hilliker was born in the southern Lower Peninsula of Michigan, in the late 1920's, just before the Great Depression of 1929 and the 1930's. ...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Virginia (Hunter College, City University of New York) ValianNumber of pages: 421Collection: The MIT PressPublic...

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Reducere. NATIONAL BESTSELLER AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Los Angeles. December, 1941. America stands at the brink of World War II. War fever and racial hat...

In James Ellroy's riveting second novel, an ambitious beat cop is hot on the trail of a serial killer who frequents L.A. dive bars and preys on the...

'This is autobiography taken to the highest reaches of fiction, another wonderful novel of scorching power, shot through with honesty and lyricism'...

Reducere. In this heartfelt tribute to the most inspiring women in her life, Teresa Renda Carlson reveals how one life can be powerfully shaped by the collec...

The Black Dahlia depicts the infrastructure of L.A.'s most sensational murder case. And the inglorious Los Angeles Police Department to disentangle...

1953-1983: 30 years of American society, from the hope of Eisenhower's presidency, to the kinky flower generation, through the death of the dream, ...

America is about to emerge into a bright new age - an age that will last until the 1000 days of John F Kennedy's presidency.

A neo-noir crime novel from the legendary crime novelist James Ellroy. Los Angeles, 15th January 1947: a beautiful young woman walked into the nigh...

A startling panorama of Los Angeles in the fifties. New Year's Eve as 1949 turns to 1950, Los Angeles: The City of Angels has becomes the city of t...

Reducere. Winner of the Independent Publishers Book Awards (Gold Medal, Romance)Set in China in the late 1800's, The Secret Language of Women tells the story...

"This book is an accessible overview of biographical fiction films of women. Structured around four of the most popular subjects of female biopics:...

A bestseller memoir in Spain that calls us to reexamine how we view women and rural lifePublisher: Trinity University Press, U.S.Author(s): Maria S...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Astra TaylorNumber of pages: 344Collection: MIT Press / Radium AgePublication date: 2022Dimensions: 201 x 134 x ...

Los Angeles, 1958: a city on the make. A boom town at the edge of a new era ripe for plunder. Lieutenant Dave Klein: in turn a lawyer, bagman, slum...

Reducere. A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND ONE OFKIRKUS REVIEWS'BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR It is 1943 the height of the Second World War. With the men away at the...

Reducere. This anthology is considered one of the groundbreaking collections of feminist essays published in the 1970's, and includes works by authors such a...

The beginning of the eighteenth century opened Spain to an influx of people, books and ideas and gave the country its own brief age of Enlightenmen...