The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women Audiobook

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• “Forceful and unsparing in its revelations…Marvelous fury, passion, and energy.”

  — San Francisco Chronicle

• “A remarkable memoir…Once again…Ellroy [has] come up with the goods.”

  — Economist

• “The words bounce around in a world where tense is fluid, where hard-consonants rule the day, where conventional definitions are tossed on their heads. He pushes his readers’ limits by demanding that they enter a world created solely for the purpose of brutally truthful revelation.”

  — Chicago Sun-Times

• “As fascinating as it is at times utterly disturbing.”

  — Entertainment Weekly

• “Ellroy is expert and relentless at dramatizing the effects [of his obsession].”

  — Wall Street Journal

• “Ellroy’s acrobatic pizzazz is beyond doubt…This is literary knife-throwing at its most exhilarating and dangerous.”

  — Observer (London)

• “Perhaps the most confessional memoir I’ve ever read.” 

  — Dallas Morning News

• “Terrible, exhilarating, exhauting, entertaining, and downright tragic. It’s also brutally honest.” 

  — Las Vegas Review Journal

• “There’s no doubt about it: James Ellroy is a fascinating character…He’s as hard to ignore as a burning fire truck…The revelations are compelling, as the author indicts the tough-guy persona he has so meticulously constructed.”

  — Booklist

• “A fervent portrait of the artist as a young screw-up—an old one, too, who writes like an avenging angel…It’s vintage Ellroy.”

  — Kirkus Reviews

• As fascinating as it is at times utterly disturbing.

  —  Entertainment Weekly

• Crime writer James Ellroy’s most compelling mystery story has always been his own . . . But The Hilliker Curse is not meant to be merely a confession. It is an act of creation . . . There’s a truth of feeling in it, too, an underlying sense of what it is actually like to live in the vortex of an impossible yearning . . . Ellroy is expert and relentless at dramatizing the effects [of his obsession].

  —  Wall Street Journal 

• This latest book is Ellroy’s most intimate and personal . . . It’s forceful and unsparing in its revelations . . . [His sentences] make you grateful to read his prose, with its marvelous fury, passion and energy. They also compel you to keep rooting for him.

  —  San Francisco Chronicle 

• Crime novelist Ellroy has given us a wild memoir in his hard-boiled, jazzy, staccato style . . . Quite a read.

  —  New York Post

• Perhaps the most confessional memoir I’ve ever read.

  —  Dallas Morning News

• From the fantastic writer who brought us unforgettable books like L.A. Confidential and The Black Dahlia, comes this extraordinary in-depth work about his own life. As always, Ellroy is extremely explicit, writing every word of this memoir with an in-your-face passion, elegance, and anger that will literally stop readers in their tracks . . . Bravo!

  — Bookpleasures.com

• Ellroy’s characteristically unforgiving portrait of himself as an angry and frustrated teenager is a masterpiece of savage economy . . . There’s no doubt that Ellroy’s is a singular voice.

  — Observer (UK)

• Fascinating . . . A searching and difficult but utterly compelling and often heartbreaking memoir of love and obsession from noir master James Ellroy . . . Readers familiar with Ellroy will recognize and appreciate the machine-gun prose, Los Angeles chiaroscuro and tortured psyche that Ellroy has made his own.

  — Shelf Awareness

• A fervent portrait of the artist as a young screw-up—an old one, too, who writes like an avenging angel . . . It’s vintage Ellroy.

  — Kirkus Reviews  “The Hilliker Curse centers mainly around the author’s doomed relationships, but also gives tantalizing glimpses into the mind of Ellroy the writer . . . As always, the writing is razor sharp, infused with Ellroy’s patented abrasive black humor. He holds nothing back.

• There’s no doubt about it: James Ellroy is a fascinating character . . . He’s as hard to ignore as a burning fire truck . . . The revelations are compelling, as the author indicts the tough-guy persona he has so meticulously constructed.

  — Booklist