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 obsessive search for "atonement in women." 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 for 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 the power of malediction, and above all a cri de cour. 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.
For Katherine Givens and the four women about to become her best friends, the adventure begins with a UPS package. Inside is a pair of red sneakers filled with ashes and a note that will forever change their lives. Katherine's oldest and dearest friend, the irrepressible Annie Freeman, left one final request-a traveling funeral-and she wants the most important women in her life as "pallbearers." Meditative and unique, a lovely read for any spiritual person, Muslim or not. "Publisher's Weekly " Few books in history have been as poorly understood as the Qur an. Sent down in a series of revelations to the Prophet Muhammad, the Qur an is the unmediated word of Allah, a ritual, political, and legal authority, an ethical and spiritual guide, and a literary masterpiece. In this book, one of the launch titles in Atlantic Monthly Press Books That Changed the World series, the distinguished historian of religion Bruce Lawrence shows precisely how the Qur an is Islam. He describes the origins of the faith and assesses its tremendous influence on today s societies and politics. Above all, Lawrence emphasizes that the Qur an is a sacred book of signs that has no The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women download PDF single message. It is a book that demands interpretation and one that can be properly understood only through its history. Bruce Lawrence s work is a beautifully written and, in these increasingly troubled times, invaluable introduction to and exploration of the core sacred text of Islam."
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Author: James Ellroy
Number of Pages: 224 pages
Published Date: 02 Jun 2011
Publisher: Cornerstone
Publication Country: London, United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN: 9780099537854
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