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The life of Raymond Chandler has long been obscured by secrets and halftruths as deceptive as anything in his novel The Long Goodbye Now drawing on new interviews previously unpublished letters and archives on both sides of the Atlantic Tom Williams casts a new light on this most mysterious of writersThe Raymond Chandler revealed is a man troubled by loneliness and desertion from an early age Born in Chicago in 1888 his childhood was overshadowed by the collapse of his parents marriage his fathers alcoholfuelled violence eventually forcing the boy and his doting mother to leave for Ireland and later London But classbound England proved stifling and Chandler in his twenties and eager to forge a new life returned to the United States wherein corruptionridden Los Angeleshe met his one great love Cissy Pascal a married woman eighteen years his seniorIt was only during middle age after his alcoholism wrecked a lucrative career as an oilman that Chandler seriously turned to crime fiction And his legacythe lonely ambiguous world of Philip Marloweendures compelling generations of crime writers to follow himIn this longawaited new biography Tom Williams shadows one of the true literary giants of the twentieth century and considers how crime writing was raised to the level of art
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Raymond Chandlers eminence as a mystery writer is unchallenged Somerset Maugham and George Grella both rate him above Dashiell Hammett Eric Partridge deems him a serious artist and a very considerable novelist while praising him as one of the finest novelists of his time Peter Wolfe examines the many sides of Chandler and his workhis apparent will to selfdestruct his obsession with beautiful women and his apparent brush with homosexualityand casts much new and needed light on this major American author
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One of 350 numbered copies signed by Fox on a special page at the end of the book Edited by Jim Pepper Correspondence between Fox amp Chandler covers the years 1950 through 1956
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Draws upon Chandlers interviews and his correspondence with colleagues and lovers to recreate the world and illuminate the works of the novelist who gained fame as the creator of private detective Philip Marlowe
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Chandler master of the hardboiled detective mystery and screenwriter of Double Indemnity The Blue Dahlia and Strangers on a Train envisioned this neverproduced screenplay as one of his most important works
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Marlowes new case is more complicated than his beautiful and mysterious client leads him to believe
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In the past decade Raymond Chandler has come to be recognized as a major midcentury American novelist Though an immensely popular writer of mysteries Chandler is now receiving the serious attention of scholars He is seen as a writer with a deliberate approach toward the creation of fictions that present a significant criticism of American life The essays and reviews in this volume trace the response to Chandlers work from 1944 to the presentThis volume traces the changing reception of Chandlers works It includes essays and reviews from 1944 to the present These pieces treat various aspects of Chandlers art such as his writing style the nature of the hardboiled detective hero the relation of Chandler to his contemporaries Los Angeles as the setting for his fiction studies of individual novels and analyses of films of Chandlers works An introductory chapter provides a context for understanding Chandler as a writer and the bibliography at the end of the volume demonstrates the growing amount of attention his novels are receiving
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First US Edition bound in red cloth A Fine copy in a Near Fine priceclipped dust jacket The dust jacket has a vertical closed 34 tear at the upper left corner of the front panel Essays by Julian Symons Michael Gilbert and others Introduction by Patricia Highsmith
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Reissued for the 50th anniversary of the film of Chandlers novel The Big Sleep this evocative and elegant book juxtaposes excerpts of Chandlers tough cynical prose with blackandwhite photographs of the city he described as no worse than others a city rich and vigorous and full of pride a city lost and beaten and full of emptiness 100 photos
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When in 1943 Chandler first entered Bill Wilders office to begin collaboration on the script for Double Indemnity 1944 he knew little about the film industry and less about screenwriting His first draft was literally hurled back at him This is s Mr Chandler He began again The final script was nominated for an Academy Award Success came quickly to chandler Though during his turbulent years in Hollywood he was to receive screen credit for only five films among them The Blue Dahlia 1946 and Strangers on a Train 1951 His screenplays his fiction and the films based on that fiction rapidly became associated with a style that French critics were to baptize film noir Before the Forties were over there were six films based upon his novels and they included such now recognized classics as Edward Dmytryks Murder My Sweet 1944 Howard Hawkss The Big Sleep 1946 scripted in part by William Faulkner and Robert Montgomerys Lady in the Lake 1947 In the years that followed new filmmakers were drawn to Chandlers seven novels as source material Now in the Eighties it seems likely that we will see new screen reinterpretations of Chandlers special and instantly recognizable world Beginning with an overview of the period in which Chandler rose to prominence this lively study goes on to chronicle his frequently his frequently stormy career as a screenwriter and then examines in detail the films based on his fiction Important in themselves they helped break the grip on the censors and led to a new type of movie that continues to bear Chandlers stamp more than twenty years after his death
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When a sinister doctor pairs up with a sexcrazed eccentric to kidnap the psychotic Carol Sternwood Marlowes investigation leads him ever deeper into a decadent southern Californian underworld
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Thematically Chandlers work is in the mainstream of American literature that moved westward carrying the simple problems of the extrovert who knowing right from wrong had only to exert a courageous individualism in order to end up a hardened but virtuous heroOriginally published in 1963A UNC Press Enduring Edition UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print These editions are published unaltered from the original and are presented in affordable paperback formats bringing readers both historical and cultural value
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Mystery fictions legendary trio Raymond Chandler Dashiell Hammett and Erle Stanley Gardner are back as amateur detectives following their dynamic critically acclaimed debut in The Black Mask Murders Here they interact in a complex colorful and ultimately dangerous adventure a richly textured thriller that also celebrates the joys of love and marriage between Chandler and his exceptional wife CissyAs narrated by Chandler the adventure begins in East Los Angeles with the discovery of what is apparently the ritual suicide of Cissys former husband in a Chinese cemetery Action moves swiftly from the coastal splendors of the Hearst castle to the abandoned canals of Venice by the Sea to an ornate hotel on Coronado Island to the rococo Victorian mansions of Bunker HillThe characters are equally diverse a mysterious screen star known to millions as the Vampire Queen a concert pianist who discovers surprising romance an exstage actor with a penchant for using his fists a missing sister who prefers to stay missing and a pair of musclebound punks who dont balk at kidnapping and murder
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