Born in Nebraska and educated in England and on the "mean streets" of Los Angeles about which he wrote, Raymond Chandler--writer, oil executive, poet, recluse, charmer, gentleman, drunk--was filled with contradictions. This revealing biography draws on new discoveries about Chandler to take a look at his life as an author, a husband, and a scoundrel.
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Born in Nebraska and educated in England and on the "mean streets" of Los Angeles about which he wrote, Raymond Chandler--writer, oil executive, poet, recluse, charmer, gentleman, drunk--was filled with contradictions. This revealing biography draws on new discoveries about Chandler to take a look at his life as an author, a husband, and a scoundrel.
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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.
