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Everyone in Ellroy’s story is morally compromised, including we as readers obsessed with this sad, ugly tale, as we, too, ask questionable questions about her sexual reputation and get fascinated with her wild life as people usually do in and through media-sensationalized cases: How many men? that’s pretty low compared to most books, and I think it says something about the chances of you liking this. Dahlia is a 29-year-old sardonic, brilliantly under-achieving Jewish girl who begins her book suddenly diagnosed with terminal brain cancer after a late night seizure. To enable personalised advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies. The story hooks me up at the start,grabs me by the collar and drags me around violently through the whole story,and finally dumps me into the gutter(let me confirm this;I’m not an open masochist!The interior was even more churchlike: velvet wall hangings depicting Jesus and his adventures decorated the entrance hall; the benches filled with lounging brownshirts looked like pews. Much like all death, the inevitable ending is grim, real, raw, and slips out the door like a whisper, giving pause to the idea that life existed at all. Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages.

Dahlia Finger, a selfish, shallow, foul-mouthed, and stoner Jewish American princess who was conceived on a kibbutz, has been diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor at the young age of 29. You become Dahlia's confident, the person she should have trusted with all her issues from the beginning. Well,it ALWAYS takes me some time to sort out and gather blown-away pieces of my sensitive heart Mr.

There are so many extraordinary quotes and passages in this book, but my favourites all contain spoilers. However, after a life time of annoying interactions of her Jewish-mother, this may not seem like the worse thing.