(Book from books) - The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6), Raymond Chandler The Long Goodbye is a novel by Raymond Chandler, published in , his sixth novel featuring the private investigator Philip Marlowe. Some critics consider it inferior to The Big Sleep or Farewell, My Lovely, but others rank it as the best of his work/5(K). · Overview. Crime fiction master Raymond Chandler's sixth novel featuring Philip Marlowe, the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times). In noir master Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye, Philip Marlowe befriends a down on his luck war veteran with the scars to prove it. Then he finds out that Terry Lennox has a very wealthy nymphomaniac wife, whom Brand: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. · The Long Goodbye () is the sixth of seven mystery novels by Raymond Chandler featuring Los Angeles P.I. Philip Marlowe. Some see it as the pinnacle of Chandler’s career as a mystery author, while others see it as less powerful than The Big Sleep and Farewell, My Lovely, two early novels. Whatever its power, it may be the most personal of Chandler’s novels, or at least we get a more .
All quotes from Chandler's and his agents' letters are taken from The Life of Raymond Chandler by Frank MacShane. Likewise, much of the biographic material in the article comes from the same source, and it should be noted that MacShane also gives an analysis of the closing lines of The Long Goodbye in his chapter on the novel. However, he. The Long Goodbye is a novel by Raymond Chandler, published in , his sixth novel featuring the private investigator Philip www.doorway.ru critics consider it inferior to The Big Sleep or Farewell, My Lovely, but others rank it as the best of his work. Chandler, in a letter to a friend, called the novel "my best book". The novel is notable for using hard-boiled detective fiction as a vehicle. Crime fiction master Raymond Chandler's sixth novel featuring Philip Marlowe, the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times).In noir master Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye, Philip Marlowe befriends a down on his luck war veteran with the scars to prove www.doorway.ru he finds out that Terry Lennox has a very wealthy nymphomaniac wife, whom he divorced and remarried and who ends up dead.
The Long Goodbye Quotes Showing of “To say goodbye is to die a little.”. “There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.”. “I was as hollow and empty as the spaces between stars.”. “A man who drinks too much on occasion is still the same man as he was sober. American-British writer Raymond Chandler’s crime fiction, The Long Goodbye (), is the sixth novel to feature his fictional detective hero Philip Marlowe. Set in Los Angeles sometime between and , the story follows Marlowe as he takes a case involving war-vet Terry Lenox. The Long Goodbye is a novel by Raymond Chandler, published in , his sixth novel featuring the private investigator Philip Marlowe. Some critics consider it inferior to The Big Sleep or Farewell, My Lovely, but others rank it as the best of his work. Chandler, in a letter to a friend, called the novel "my best book".
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