A mysterious something in the light : the life of Raymond Chandler
Williams, Tom, 1981-2013
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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 Now, drawing on new interviews, previously unpublished letters, and archives on both sides of the Atlantic, Tom Williams casts a new light on this most mysterious of writers.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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Imprint:
Chicago, IL. : Chicago Review Press, 2013.
Collation:
xv, 368 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Notes:
"First published in Great Britain in 2012 by Aurum Press" --T.p. verso.Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-360) and index.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 1."My Father Was an Alcoholic" -- 2."I Was Raised on Latin and Greek" -- 3."A Man Without a Country" -- 4.Welcome to Los Angeles -- 5.Raymio -- 6.Making a Start -- 7.A Pulp Writer -- 8.Writing The Big Sleep -- 9."A Few Drops of Tabasco on the Oyster" -- 10.Hollywood -- 11."No Job for Amateurs" -- 12."The Limitations of a Popular Art" -- 13."Subdued Magic" -- 14."Sit with Me While I Dream".
ISBN:
9781613748404161374840X
Dewey class:
813.54813.4
LC class:
PS3505.H3224
Language:
English
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BRN:
104731
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Library at the Dock | -Biography | BIOG 813.4 CHAN | On loan - Due: 26 Jul 2026 |