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The Long Embrace
Judith Freeman
其他書名
Raymond Chandler and the Woman He Loved
出版
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
, 2008-11-11
主題
Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures
Performing Arts / Film / Screenwriting
Literary Criticism / American / General
ISBN
0307472701
9780307472700
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=nHtEf6GjuJEC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
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.