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The Lady in the Lake (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)by Raymond Chandler
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:A couple of missing wives — one a rich man's and one a poor man's — become the objects of Marlowe's investigation. One of them may have gotten a Mexican divorce and married a gigolo and the other may be dead. Marlowe's not sure he cares about either one, but he's not paid to care. Review:"Raymond Chandler is a master. The New York Times Review:"[Chandler] wrote as if pain hurt and life mattered. The New Yorker Review:"Chandler seems to have created the culminating American hero: wised up, hopeful, thoughtful, adventurous, sentimental, cynical and rebellious." The New York Times Book Review Review:"Philip Marlowe remains the quintessential urban private eye. Los Angeles Times Review:"Nobody can write like Chandler on his home turf, not even Faulkner. . . . An original. . . . A great artist." The Boston Book Review Review:"Raymond Chandler was one of the finest prose writers of the twentieth century. . . . Age does not wither Chandler's prose. . . . He wrote like an angel." Literary Review Review:"[T]he prose rises to heights of unselfconscious eloquence, and we realize with a jolt of excitement that we are in the presence of not a mere action tale teller, but a stylist, a writer with a vision." The New York Review of Books Synopsis:Philip Marlowe goes out of his usual city habitat into the mountains outside of Los Angeles in his strange search for a missing woman. Synopsis:Marlowe's wry humor and existential sense of his job prove yet again why he has become one of the most recognized and imitated characters in fiction. About the AuthorRaymond Chandler was born in Chicago, Illinois, on July 23, 1888, but spent most of his boyhood and youth in England, where he attended Dulwich College and later worked as a freelance journalist for The Westminster Gazette and The Spectator. During World War I, he served in France with the First Division of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, transferring later to the Royal Flying Corps (R. A. F.). In 1919 he returned to the United States, settling in California, where he eventually became director of a number of independent oil companies. The Depression put an end to his business career, and in 1933, at the age of forty-five, he turned to writing, publishing his first stories in Black Mask. By the time he published his first novel, The Big Sleep (1939), featuring, as did all his major works, the iconic private eye Philip Marlowe, it was clear that he had not only mastered a genre but had set a standard to which others could only aspire. Chandler created a body of work that ranks with the best of twentieth-century literature. He died in 1959. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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