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Loading... Raymond Chandler : Later Novels and Other Writings : The Lady in the Lake…by Raymond ChandlerSeries: Library of America (80)
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0375415025, Hardcover)(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)Creator of the famous Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler elevated the American hard-boiled detective genre to an art form. Chandler’s last four novels, published here in one volume, offer ample opportunity to savor the unique and utterly compelling fictional world that made his works modern classics. The Lady in the Lake moves Marlowe out of his usual habitat of city streets and into the mountains outside of Los Angeles in his strange search for a missing woman. The Little Sister takes Marlowe to Hollywood, where he tries to find a sweet young thing’s missing brother, uncovering on the way a little blackmail, a lot of drugs, and more than enough murder. In The Long Goodbye, a case involving a war-scarred drunk and his nymphomaniac wife has Marlowe constantly on the move: a psychotic gangster’s on his trail, he’s in trouble with the cops, and more and more corpses keep turning up. Playback features a well-endowed redhead who leads Marlowe to the California coast to solve a tale of big money and, of course, murder. Throughout these masterpieces, Marlowe’s wry humor and existential sense of his job prove yet again why he has become one of the most recognized and imitated characters in fiction. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:23 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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After reading all of Chandler's novels, it is clear that he didn't vary much as a writer. But his sheer talent for putting words together was so great that he stands as one of the geniuses of American literature. Comparing him to Hammett, he is completely unadventurous, both in subject matter and style, but he nevertheless emerges as his equal.
There are no excuses for not reading every word Chandler wrote! Let's be honest: even among us avid readers, we still rarely encounter those writers whose books are so much pleasure to read. (