A mysterious something in the light [electronic resource] : the life of Raymond Chandler / Tom Williams.
"The life of Raymond Chandler has long been obscured by secrets and half-truths 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 Now, drawing on new interviews, previously unpublished letters, and archives on both sides of the Atlantic, Tom Williams casts a new light on this most mysterious o...
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Language: | English |
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Chicago, Ill. :
Chicago Review Press,
2012.
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A Mysterious Something in the Light: The Life of Raymond Chandler |
Format: | Electronic eBook |
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"The life of Raymond Chandler has long been obscured by secrets and half-truths 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 Now, drawing on new interviews, previously unpublished letters, and archives on both sides of the Atlantic, Tom Williams casts a new light on this most mysterious of writers. Raymond 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 father's alcohol-fuelled violence eventually forcing the boy and his doting mother to leave for Ireland and later London. but class-bound England proved stifling, and Chandler, in his twenties and eager to forge a new life, returned to the US where--in corruption-ridden LA--he met his one great love, Cissy Pascal, a married woman eighteen years his senior. It was only during middle age, later his alcoholism wrecked a lucrative career an oilman, that Chandler seriously turned to crime fiction. And Philip Marlowe endures."--From publisher's description. |
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Note: | "First published in Great Britain in 2012 by Aurum Press" --T.p. verso. |
Bibliography Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 357-360) and index. |
ISBN: | 9781306011426 (online) 9781613748411 (online) 9781613748435 (online) |