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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. Featuring the iconic character that inspired the forthcoming film Marlowe , starring Liam Neeson.

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PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-100375415025

ISBN-139780375415029

eBay Product ID (ePID)2314356

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Publication Year2002

TopicMystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled, Mystery & Detective / Private Investigators

Book TitleLady in the Lake, the Little Sister, the Long Goodbye, Playback : Introduction by Tom Hiney

LanguageEnglish

GenreFiction

AuthorRaymond Chandler

Book SeriesEveryman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.

FormatHardcover

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Item Height1.8in

Item Length8.3in

Item Weight31.1 Oz

Item Width5.3in

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LCCN2003-271107

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition22

Reviews"Raymond Chandler is a master." New York Times "Chandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence." Ross Macdonald "Raymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since." Paul Auster "The prose rises to heights of unself-conscious eloquence, and we realize with a jolt of excitement that we are in the presence of not a mere action-tale teller, but a stylist, a writer with a vision...The reader is captivated by Chandler's seductive prose." Joyce Carol Oates, New York Review of Books "Chandler is one of my favorite writers. His books bear rereading every few years. The novels are a perfect snapshot of an American past, and yet the ruined romanticism of the voice is as fresh as if they were written yesterday." Jonathan Lethem "Chandler seems to have invented our post-war dream livesthe tough but tender hero, the dangerous blonde, the rain-washed sidewalks, and the roar of the traffic (and the ocean) in the distance...Chandler is the classic lonely romantic outsider for our times, and American literature, as well as English, would be the poorer for his absence." Pico Iyer With a new Introduction by Diane Johnson, "Raymond Chandler is a master." New York Times "Chandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence." Ross Macdonald "Raymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since." Paul Auster "The prose rises to heights of unself-conscious eloquence, and we realize with a jolt of excitement that we are in the presence of not a mere action-tale teller, but a stylist, a writer with a visionâ€¦The reader is captivated by Chandler's seductive prose." Joyce Carol Oates,New York Review of Books "Chandler is one of my favorite writers. His books bear rereading every few years. The novels are a perfect snapshot of an American past, and yet the ruined romanticism of the voice is as fresh as if they were written yesterday." Jonathan Lethem "Chandler seems to have invented our post-war dream livesthe tough but tender hero, the dangerous blonde, the rain-washed sidewalks, and the roar of the traffic (and the ocean) in the distanceâ€¦Chandler is the classic lonely romantic outsider for our times, and American literature, as well as English, would be the poorer for his absence." Pico Iyer With a new Introduction by Tom Hiney, "Raymond Chandler is a master." New York Times "Chandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence." Ross Macdonald "Raymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since." Paul Auster "The prose rises to heights of unself-conscious eloquence, and we realize with a jolt of excitement that we are in the presence of not a mere action-tale teller, but a stylist, a writer with a visionâ€¦The reader is captivated by Chandler's seductive prose." Joyce Carol Oates, New York Review of Books "Chandler is one of my favorite writers. His books bear rereading every few years. The novels are a perfect snapshot of an American past, and yet the ruined romanticism of the voice is as fresh as if they were written yesterday." Jonathan Lethem "Chandler seems to have invented our post-war dream livesthe tough but tender hero, the dangerous blonde, the rain-washed sidewalks, and the roar of the traffic (and the ocean) in the distanceâ€¦Chandler is the classic lonely romantic outsider for our times, and American literature, as well as English, would be the poorer for his absence." Pico Iyer With a new Introduction by Tom Hiney, "Raymond Chandler is a master." New York Times "Chandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence." Ross Macdonald "Raymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since." Paul Auster "The prose rises to heights of unself-conscious eloquence, and we realize with a jolt of excitement that we are in the presence of not a mere action-tale teller, but a stylist, a writer with a visionâ€¦The reader is captivated by Chandler's seductive prose." Joyce Carol Oates,New York Review of Books "Chandler is one of my favorite writers. His books bear rereading every few years. The novels are a perfect snapshot of an American past, and yet the ruined romanticism of the voice is as fresh as if they were written yesterday." Jonathan Lethem "Chandler seems to have invented our post-war dream livesthe tough but tender hero, the dangerous blonde, the rain-washed sidewalks, and the roar of the traffic (and the ocean) in the distanceâ€¦Chandler is the classic lonely romantic outsider for our times, and American literature, as well as English, would be the poorer for his absence." Pico Iyer, "Raymond Chandler is a master." --The New York Times "[Chandler] wrote as if pain hurt and life mattered." --The New Yorker "Chandler seems to have created the culminating American hero: wised up, hopeful, thoughtful, adventurous, sentimental, cynical and rebellious." --Robert B. Parker, The New York Times Book Review "Philip Marlowe remains the quintessential urban private eye." --Los Angeles Times "Nobody can write like Chandler on his home turf, not even Faulkner. . . . An original. . . . A great artist." -The Boston Book Review "Raymond Chandler was one of the finest prose writers of the twentieth century. . . . Age does not wither Chandler's prose. . . . He wrote like an angel." --Literary Review "[T]he prose rises to heights of unselfconscious eloquence, and we realize with a jolt of excitement that we are in the presence of not a mere action tale teller, but a stylist, a writer with a vision." --Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Review of Books "Chandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence." -Ross Macdonald "Raymond Chandler is a star of the first magnitude." --Erle Stanley Gardner "Raymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since." --Paul Auster "[Chandler]'s the perfect novelist for our times. He takes us into a different world, a world that's like ours, but isn't. " --Carolyn See

Dewey Decimal813/.52

Lc Classification NumberPs3505.H3224a6 2002

Number of Pages1016 Pages