Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles
by Alain Silver, Elizabeth Ward (Editor)
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Re-issued for the 50th anniversary of the film of Chandler's novel 'The Big Sleep', this homage to film noir is a visionary journey across a landscape of darkened bungalows, decaying office blocks and sinister nightspots - an atmospheric tribute to both the writer and his city. Contains over 150 photographs and extracts from Chandler's classic detective fiction.Tags
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Really nice companion to Chandler's books, period photos of places from his writings alongside excerpts from his books that mention them.
A photographic tour of Los Angeles as described in the novels od Raymond Chandler. Beautiful photos commented by snippets of text from Marlowe stories.
An excellet complement to a collection of Chandler's hard-boiled fiction.
An excellet complement to a collection of Chandler's hard-boiled fiction.
This book presents one page with an excerpt of Chandler's work and has a facing page with a B&W photo of the area it was or could have been referring to. Small introductory sections with excellent biographical data of the area or Chandler's life. It was Chandler who put Los Angeles on the literary map.
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Common Knowledge
- People/Characters
- Raymond Chandler
- Important places
- California, USA; Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Genres
- Literature Studies and Criticism, Fiction and Literature, Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 813.52 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1900-1945
- LCC
- PS3505 .H3224 .A6 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Individual authors 1900-1960
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- Reviews
- 4
- Rating
- (3.95)
- Languages
- English
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- ISBNs
- 2
