The Big Sleep

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When a dying millionaire hires Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troublesome daughters, Marlowe finds himself involved with more than extortion. Kidnapping, pornography, seduction, and murder are just a few of the complications he gets caught up in.Chandler [writes] like a slumming angel and invest[s] the sun-blinded streets of Los Angelos with a romantic presence."--Ross MacdonaldFrom the Trade Paperback edition."


Review: "Raymond Chandler is a master." --The New York Timesâ[Chandler] wrote as if pain hurt and life mattered.â --The New YorkerâChandler seems to have created the culminating American hero: wised up, hopeful, thoughtful, adventurous, sentimental, cynical and rebellious.â --Robert B. Parker, The New York Times Book ReviewâPhilip Marlowe remains the quintessential urban private eye.â --Los Angeles TimesâNobody can write like Chandler on his home turf, not even Faulkner. . . . An original. . . . A great artist.â âThe Boston Book ReviewâRaymond Chandler was one of the finest prose writers of the twentieth century. . . . Age does not wither Chandlerâs prose. . . . He wrote like an angel.â --Literary Reviewâ[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.â --Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Review of BooksâChandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence.â âRoss MacdonaldâRaymond Chandler is a star of the first magnitude.â --Erle Stanley GardnerâRaymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since.â --Paul Auster â[Chandler]âs the perfect novelist for our times. He takes us into a different world, a world thatâs like ours, but isnât. â --Carolyn See

Author / Editor: Chandler, Raymond

Category: Mystery & Crime

ISBN: 9781400030156

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