The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women. By James Ellroy.

《希利克诅咒：我对女人的追求》，作者詹姆斯•艾尔罗伊。

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Ellroy puts it best in the introduction: "This society grants women a unique power to seduce and destroy."

埃尔罗伊在序言中阐述得非常精到：“这个社会赋予女人一种引诱并破坏的特殊权力。”

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This grotesque coincidence, Mr Ellroy explains in his remarkable memoir, gave rise to an agonising sense of guilt and a lifelong search for women's forgiveness.

在这本出色的回忆录中艾尔·罗伊解释道，这个荒唐的巧合让他感到痛苦和内疚，促使他穷尽一生去寻求女人的宽恕。

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Mr Ellroy's distinctive on-page voice is part 1950s jive-talking jazzman, part high-minded seeker after eternal truths.

ECONOMIST: The man that mother made

Mr Ellroy, incidentally, has kept the cover designers at Random House working hard as well.

ECONOMIST: The man that mother made

What Mr Ellroy gains in surface sizzle he loses in emotional resonance.

ECONOMIST: The man that mother made