Raymond Chandler: Later Novels and Other Writings. The Library of America Series. The Lady in the Lake; The Little Sister; The Long Goodbye; Playback; Double Indemnity; Selected Essays and Letters

Chandler, Raymond

ISBN 10: 1883011086 / ISBN 13: 9781883011086

Edité par The Library of America, Distributed By Penguin Books, USA, 1995

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USA: The Library of America, Distributed By Penguin Books, 1995. Deluxe presentation of the Library of America series, with slipcase instead of dustjacket. Dark royal blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, attached ribbon bookmark, ivory colored slipcase printed in gilt. The book has some transparent staining near the spine edges which appear to have been caused by the binding glue (interior not affected), lower corners of three pages corner-creased, otherwise looks and feels new and unread, tight binding, clean pages, no names or other markings. The slipcase is in fine condition, clean and sturdy. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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• Titre: Raymond Chandler: Later Novels and Other Writings. The Library of America Series. The Lady in the Lake; The Little Sister; The Long Goodbye; Playback; Double Indemnity; Selected Essays and Letters
• Éditeur: The Library of America, Distributed By Penguin Books, USA
• Date de parution: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1883011086
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781883011086
• Reliure: Hardcover
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: Fine
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Fiction, Literature, Poetry, Literary History

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Synopsis

With humor, along with an unerring sense of dialogue and the telling details of dress and behavior, Raymond Chandler created a distinctive fictional universe out of the dark side of sunlit Los Angeles. In the process, he transformed both crime writing and the American language.

Written during the war, The Lady in the Lake (1943) takes Philip Marlowe out of the seamy L.A. streets to the deceptive tranquility of the surrounding mountains, as the search for a businessman’s missing wife expands into an elegy of loneliness and loss. The darker tone typical of Chandler’s later fiction is evident in The Little Sister (1949), in which an ambitious starlet, a blackmailer, and a seemingly naïve young woman from Manhattan, Kansas, are the key players in a plot that provides fuel for a bitter indictment of Hollywood and Chandler’s most savage portrayal of his adopted city.

The Long Goodbye (1953), his most ambitious and self-revealing novel, uncovers a more anguished resonance in the Marlowe character, in a plot that hinges on the betrayal of friendship and the compromises of middle age. Playback (1958), written originally as a screenplay, is Chandler’s seventh and last novel.

A special feature of this volume is Chandler’s long-unavailable screenplay for the film noir classic, Double Indemnity (1944), adapted from James M. Cain’s novel. Written with director Billy Wilder, it is one of the best screenplays in American cinema, masterful in construction and dialogue. Supplementing the volume, and providing a more personal glimpse of Chandler’s personality, is a selection of letters and essays—including “The Simple Art of Murder,” in which Chandler muses on his pulp roots and on the special qualities of his hero and style.

LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

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Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) was one of the pioneers of hard-bolied detective fiction, a form he perfected in his celebrated Philip Marlowe novels, including The Big Sleep, The Lady in the Lake, and The Long Goodbye.

Frank MacShane (1927–1999) was author of The Life of Raymond Chandler and Raymond Chandler: A Bibliography and editor of The Letters of Raymond Chandler and The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler.