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I Jean Hillikers Skugga : Min Jakt På Kvinnorna (2011)

by James Ellroy(Favorite Author)

3.14 of 5 Votes: 1

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Bra Böcker

review 1: Great read! What starts as old guy looking back at his pervert teens and twenties (peeping tom/panty sniffing stuff) becomes a surprisingly revealing memoir of love and loss. Ellroy spends the majority of the book discussing his failed second marriage and subsequent failed relationship after that. Instead of a bitter diatribe about lost love, his chronicle of this period are love letters to women he still cares deeply about. And those jazzy prose! The Demon Dog hasn't lost any of his bite: "Paradox, dichotomy, dialectic. The Diaspora meets the Reformation. Our divergent beliefs contained. Our corporeal selves reconstituted a daughter. My safety-zone concept deconstructed with someone dangerous. I was the amnesiac. She was the black-clad woman with the answ... moreers."
review 2: A masterclass in mother issues and how to ruin relationships. This is the first James Ellroy I'd read and once I'd got used to the staccato writing style and gumshoe tone it was an enjoyable read by an author I had only a passing knowledge of.Pleasant enough if not something that will remain memorable. I enjoyed the telling of at times an angst ridden selfish tale in a way that remained interesting without being irritating. I felt absolutely no connection to Ellroy himself in the memoir or to any of the women but would recommend it as something to potter through that won't change your life. less

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