eBooks - Mystery - Detective Stories - Lin Carter - Raymond Chandler - The Long Goodbye
The Long Goodbye eBook
By: Lin Carter, Raymond Chandler
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The Long Goodbye Summary
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Marlowe befriends a down-on-his-luck war veteran with the scars to prove it. Then he finds out that Terry Lennox has a very wealthy nymphomaniac wife, who he's divorced and re-married and who ends up dead. Now Lennox is on the lam and the cops -- and a crazy gangster -- are after Marlowe. "Raymond Chandler is a master." THE NEW YORK TIMES "[Chandler] wrote as if pain hurt and life mattered." "Chandler seems to have created the culminating American hero: wised up, hopeful, thoughtful, adventurous, sentimental, cynical and rebellious." "Philip Marlowe remains the quintessential urban private eye." "Nobody can write like Chandler on his home turf, not even Faulkner.... An original.... A great artist." "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." "[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." "Chandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence." "Raymond Chandler invented |
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