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The World of Raymond Chandler: In His Own Words
By Chandler, Raymond
- ISBN
- 9780385352369 9780385352376
- Publisher
- Knopf.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on December 1, 2014 | Arts and Humanities
When he died in 1959, Chandler (The Big Sleep; The Long Goodbye) was revered, along with Dashiell Hammett and Ross Macdonald, as a master of hard-boiled fiction. Born in Chicago in 1888 and raised and educated in England before returning to America, Chandler turned to writing in the early 1940s after scuttling a successful career in the oil industry. In chapters on Chandler's early years, his thoughts on the craft of crime writing, his immersion in Am...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
