The Life of Raymond Chandler - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Life of Raymond Chandler write by Frank MacShane. This book was released on 1986-01-01. The Life of Raymond Chandler available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
A Mysterious Something in the Light
A Mysterious Something in the Light - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Mysterious Something in the Light write by Tom Williams. This book was released on 2013-09-01. A Mysterious Something in the Light available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 Now, drawing on new interviews, previously unpublished letters, and archives on both sides of the Atlantic, Tom Williams casts a new light on this most mysterious of writers. The Raymond Chandler revealed 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 United States where—in corruption-ridden Los Angeles—he met his one great love, Cissy Pascal, a married woman eighteen years his senior. It was only during middle age, after his alcoholism wrecked a lucrative career as an oilman, that Chandler seriously turned to crime fiction. And his legacy—the lonely, ambiguous world of Philip Marlowe—endures, compelling generations of crime writers to follow him. In this long-awaited new biography, Tom Williams shadows one of the true literary giants of the twentieth century and considers how crime writing was raised to the level of art.
The World of Raymond Chandler
The World of Raymond Chandler - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The World of Raymond Chandler write by Raymond Chandler. This book was released on 2015-11-10. The World of Raymond Chandler available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The World of Raymond Chandler shows how Chandler precariously balanced the values of a classical English education against those of a fast-evolving America during the years before the Great War; how he adopted Los Angeles as his home after WWI, with Hollywood in turn adopting him (and adapting his works); how his detective hero and alter ego Philip Marlowe evolved over the years; and, above all, what it is to be a writer, and in particular one writing in the “other language” of hardboiled fiction. Acclaimed biographer and historian Barry Day deftly interweaves images and text, using quotations from Chandler’s novels, short stories, letters, and interviews, to craft a unique portrait of the mystery writer’s life and times.
The Long Embrace
The Long Embrace - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Long Embrace write by Judith Freeman. This book was released on 2008-11-11. The Long Embrace available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Raymond Chandler was among the most original and enduring crime novelists of the twentieth century. Yet much of his pre-writing life, including his unconventional marriage, has remained shrouded in mystery. In this compelling, wholly original book, Judith Freeman sets out to solve the puzzle of who Chandler was and how he became the writer who would create in Philip Marlowe an icon of American culture. Visiting Chandler's many homes and apartments, Freeman uncovers vestiges of the Los Angeles that was Chandler's terrain and inspiration for his imagination. She also uncovers the life of Cissy Pascal, the older, twice-divorced woman Chandler married in 1924. A revelation of a marriage that was a wellspring of need, illusion, and creativity, The Long Embrace provides us with a more complete picture of Raymond Chandler's life and art than any we have had before.
Raymond Chandler Speaking
Raymond Chandler Speaking - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Raymond Chandler Speaking write by Raymond Chandler. This book was released on 1997-04-30. Raymond Chandler Speaking available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Tough-minded and typically idiosyncratic, here is Chandler on Chandler, the mystery novel, writing, Hollywood, TV, publishing, cats, and famous crimes. This skillfully edited selection of letters, articles, and notes also includes the short story "A Couple of Writers" and the first chapters of Chandler's last Philip Marlowe novel, The Poodle Springs Story, left unfinished at his death. Paul Skenazy has provided a new introduction for this edition as well as a new selected bibliography. --Publisher description.
