20th century american literature
a couple of writers
A01=Raymond Chandler
american popular literature
american writer
Author_Raymond Chandler
british writer
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Category=DNL
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Category=DSK
cats
craft of writing
crime fiction
detective fiction
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eq_biography-true-stories
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eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
famous crimes
film and television
film criticism
film studies
hardboiled
hollywood
movie criticism
movie history
mystery
mystery genre
mystery writers of america
philip marlowe
private detective
publishing industry
raymond chandler
suspense
the mystery novel
the poodle springs story
Product details
- ISBN 9780520208353
- Weight: 318g
- Dimensions: 140 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 30 Apr 1997
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Tough-minded and typically idiosyncratic, here is Chandler on Chandler, the mystery novel, writing, Hollywood, TV, publishing, cats, and famous crimes. This skillfully edited selection of letters, articles, and notes also includes the short story "A Couple of Writers" and the first chapters of Chandler's last Philip Marlowe novel, "The Poodle Springs Story", left unfinished at his death. Paul Skenazy has provided a new introduction for this edition as well as a new selected bibliography.
Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) was born in Chicago but raised in London, returning to the U.S. to live in California in 1919. His first story, "Blackmailers Don't Shoot," was published in 1933 and The Big Sleep, his first novel, in 1939.Paul Skenazy is the author of The New Wild West: The Urban Mysteries of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler and he is Professor of American Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
