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The World of Raymond Chandler: In His Own Words

by Raymond Chandler

2021-01-03 06:38:21

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The World of Raymond Chandler shows how Chandler precariously balanced the values of a classical English education against those of a fast-evolving America during the years before the Great War; how he adopted Los Angeles as his home after WWI, with ... Read more

The World of Raymond Chandler shows how Chandler precariously balanced the values of a classical English education against those of a fast-evolving America during the years before the Great War; how he adopted Los Angeles as his home after WWI, with Hollywood in turn adopting him (and adapting his works); how his detective hero and alter ego Philip Marlowe evolved over the years; and, above all, what it is to be a writer, and in particular one writing in the “other language” of hardboiled fiction.
 
Acclaimed biographer and historian Barry Day deftly interweaves images and text, using quotations from Chandler’s novels, short stories, letters, and interviews, to craft a unique portrait of the mystery writer’s life and times

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Print pages272
PublisherKnopf
Publication date December 2, 2014
Languageeng
ISBN9780804170482
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Raymond Chandler
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Raymond Thornton Chandler (1888 - 1959) was the master practitioner of American hard-boiled crime fiction. During World War I, Chandler served in France with the First Division of the Canadian Expedit...

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