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On Raymond Chandler and his obsession with another man's wife
by possibly noteworthy at 7:08 am EST, Nov 6, 2007

Chandler is so much a part of the furniture that we tend to forget how great he is.

"I used to like this town. A long time ago. There were trees along Wilshire Boulevard. Beverly Hills was a country town. Westwood was bare hills and lots offering at eleven hundred dollars and no takers. Hollywood was a bunch of frame houses on the inter-urban line," Raymond Chandler wrote, in the voice of his detective hero, Philip Marlowe, in 1949. "Los Angeles was just a big dry sunny place with ugly homes and no style, but good-hearted and peaceful. It had the climate they yap about now. People used to sleep out on porches. Little groups who thought they were intellectual used to call it the Athens of America."

This is a review of The Long Embrace: Raymond Chandler and the Woman He Loved.


 
 
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