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The Big Sleep (Penguin Essentials)
Raymond Chandler
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Description for The Big Sleep (Penguin Essentials)
Paperback. Philip Marlowe is hired by wheelchair-bound General Sternwood to discover who is indulging in some petty blackmail. A weary, old man, Sternwood just wants the problem to go away. But Marlowe finds he has his work cut out just keeping Sternwood's wild, devil-may-care daughters out of trouble as they prowl LA's dirtiest and darkest streets. Series: Penguin Essentials. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 110 x 16. Weight in Grams: 146.
Hard-boiled detective fiction at its best: Raymond Chandler's best loved novel, The Big Sleep, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.
'I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it. I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be. I was calling on four million dollars.'
Los Angeles PI Philip Marlowe is hired by wheelchair-bound General Sternwood to discover who is indulging in some petty blackmail. A weary, old man, Sternwood just wants the problem to go away. But Marlowe finds he has his work cut out just keeping Sternwood's wild, devil-may-care daughters out of trouble as they prowl LA's dirtiest and darkest streets. And pretty soon, he's up to his neck in hoodlums and corpses . . .
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
Series
Penguin Essentials
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241970775
SKU
9780241970775
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Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-2
About Raymond Chandler
Raymond Thornton Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888, but moved to England with his family when he was twelve, where he attended Dulwich College, alma mater to some of the twentieth century's most renowned writers. Returning to America in 1912, he settled in California, worked in a number of jobs, and later married. It was during the Depression era that he seriously turned his hand to writing, and his first published story appeared in the pulp magazine Black Mask in 1933, followed six years later, when he was fifty, by his first novel, The Big Sleep. Chandler died in 1959, having established himself as the finest crime writer in America.
Reviews for The Big Sleep (Penguin Essentials)
Chandler seems to have created the culminating American hero: wised up, hopeful, thoughtful, adventurous, sentimental, cynical and rebellious
Robert B. Parker
The New York Times Book Review
Raymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since
Paul Auster Raymond Chandler is a star of the first magnitude
Erle Stanley Gardner [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
Joyce Carol Oates
New York Review of Books
Raymond Chandler is a master
New York Times
Philip Marlowe remains the quintessential urban private eye
Los Angeles Times
Nobody can write like Chandler on his home turf, not even Faulkner. . . A great artist
The Boston Book Review
Anything Chandler writes about grips the mind from the first sentence
Daily Telegraph
Robert B. Parker
The New York Times Book Review
Raymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since
Paul Auster Raymond Chandler is a star of the first magnitude
Erle Stanley Gardner [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
Joyce Carol Oates
New York Review of Books
Raymond Chandler is a master
New York Times
Philip Marlowe remains the quintessential urban private eye
Los Angeles Times
Nobody can write like Chandler on his home turf, not even Faulkner. . . A great artist
The Boston Book Review
Anything Chandler writes about grips the mind from the first sentence
Daily Telegraph