A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, Raymond Chandler is an uncensored look at the tortured man who wrote the classic mystery novels The Big Sleep and The Long Goodbye. Using recently uncovered archival materials including personal papers and correspondence, biographer Thomas Hiney vividly evokes Chandler's early years in Nebraska, his education in England and on the corrupt streets of Los Angeles, and his later years as a novelist and screenwriter in the heyday of the Hollywood studio system. Along the way, he ...
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A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, Raymond Chandler is an uncensored look at the tortured man who wrote the classic mystery novels The Big Sleep and The Long Goodbye. Using recently uncovered archival materials including personal papers and correspondence, biographer Thomas Hiney vividly evokes Chandler's early years in Nebraska, his education in England and on the corrupt streets of Los Angeles, and his later years as a novelist and screenwriter in the heyday of the Hollywood studio system. Along the way, he provides illuminating insights into the writer's inspirations and work - as well as accounts of Chandler's battles with alcohol addiction and his friendships with Howard Hawks, "Lucky" Luciano, S. J. Perelman, and Alfred Hitchcock. This book is also the first to fully detail the significance and complexities of his thirty-year marriage to Cissy, a woman seventeen years his senior. Raymond Chandler is personal portrait of an author as extraordinary as the fiction he created - a body of work that has sold more than five million copies, been translated into twenty-five languages, and inspired countless imitators. "A discerning portrait of the creator of Philip Marlowe, the archetypal American private eye." - Newsweek
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Tom Hiney's 'Raymond Chandler' is thoroughly researched, highly readable, impeccably sourced. This is warts-and-all biography at its best -- truthful without malice, detailed but not tiresome, sympathetic but not hagiographic.
Most of us are mature enough to understand that genius comes with a price, emotional instability being one of the most common. Good readers will come away from this experience knowing that Raymond Chandler was a real human being with faults like the rest of us, who was likable despite his flaws. I was left wishing that I could have met him. Lovers of film noir, fans of the hard-boiled dick and of Philip Marlowe novels in particular, will love this book as they love the novels and the films.
Buy this book with a quart of good bourbon and save them someplace safe. Comes a nice, cold, rainy day, put on your meanest fedora, unplug the phone and curl up in a chair with 'Raymond Chandler'. Then open the bourbon and start reading. Don't answer the door until the book and the bottle are finished.
If anybody asks what you did that day, tell 'em you went to therapy.
