The Long Good-bye - Couverture souple

Chandler, Raymond

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0241954363 ISBN 13 : 9780241954362

Editeur : Penguin, 2010

Synopsis

The Long Good-bye Down-and-out drunk Terry Lennox has a problem: his millionaire wife is dead and he needs to get out of LA fast. So he turns to his only friend in the world: Philip Marlowe, Private Investigator. He's willing to help a man down on his luck, but later, Lennox commits suicide in Mexico and things start to turn nasty. Full description

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The Long Good-bye is a classic novel by Raymond Chandler, the master of hard-boiled crime.Down-and-out drunk Terry Lennox has a problem: his millionaire wife is dead and he needs to get out of LA fast. So he turns to his only friend in the world: Philip Marlowe, Private Investigator. He's willing to help a man down on his luck, but later, Lennox commits suicide in Mexico and things start to turn nasty. Marlowe finds himself drawn into a sordid crowd of adulterers and alcoholics in LA's Idle Valley, where the rich are suffering one big suntanned hangover. Marlowe is sure Lennox didn't kill his wife, but how many more stiffs will turn up before he gets to the truth?'Anything Chandler writes about grips the mind from the first sentence' Daily Telegraph 'One of the greatest crime writers, who set standards others still try to attain' Sunday Times'Chandler is an original stylist, creator of a character as immortal as Sherlock Holmes' Anthony BurgessBest-known as the creator of the original private eye, Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888 and died in 1959. Many of his books have been adapted for the screen, and he is widely regarded as one of the very greatest writers of detective fiction. His books include The Big Sleep, The Little Sister, Farewell, My Lovely, The Long Good-bye, The Lady in the Lake, Playback, Killer in the Rain, The High Window and Trouble is My Business.

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Le détective Philip Marlowe a sympathisé avec Terry Lennox, poivrot impénitent travaillant dans le cinéma. Celui-ci a épousé Sylvia, la fille d'un milliardaire, pour son argent. Le couple divorce, puis se réconcilie. Régulièrement, Marlowe rencontre son ami pour vider un verre. Un jour, prétextant des ennuis, Lennox lui demande de le conduire en voiture jusqu'à la frontière mexicaine. À son retour, le détective est interpellé par la police. On a retrouvé Sylvia assassinée. Soupçonné de complicité, Marlowe est emprisonné.

L'idée forte du récit reste l'amitié trahie. Marlowe, romantique solitaire, croyait avoir trouvé en Lennox un digne compagnon détenteur d'un certain code de l'honneur, mais il doit déchanter. Pièce maîtresse de Chandler, ce roman, publié pour la première fois en version intégrale, fourmille de commentaires désabusés sur la société californienne. La traduction précédente, Sur un air de navaja, avait été amputée d'un tiers du texte original. --Claude Mesplède

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Penguin
• Date d'édition: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0241954363
• ISBN 13: 9780241954362
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 464