A mysterious something in the light : the life of Raymond Chandler / Tom Williams.
| Author/creator |
Williams, Tom, 1981- |
| Format | Electronic and Book |
| Publication Info | Chicago, Ill. : Chicago Review Press, |
| Description | xv, 368 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
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| Contents | "My father was an alcoholic" -- "I was raised on Latin and Greek" -- "A man without a country" -- Welcome to Los Angeles -- Raymio -- Making a start -- A pulp writer -- Writing The big sleep -- "A few drops of Tabasco on the oyster" -- Hollywood -- "No job for amateurs" -- "The limitations of a popular art" -- "Subdued magic" -- "Sit with me while I dream". |
| Abstract | "The life of Raymond Chandler has long been obscured by secrets and half-truths as deceptive as anything in his novel The Long Goodbye. Now, drawing on new interviews, previously unpublished letters, and archives on both sides of the Atlantic, Tom Williams casts a new light on this most mysterious of writers. Raymond is a man troubled by loneliness and desertion from an early age. Born in Chicago in 1888, his childhood was overshadowed by the collapse of his parents' marriage, his father's alcohol-fuelled violence eventually forcing the boy and his doting mother to leave for Ireland and later London. but class-bound England proved stifling, and Chandler, in his twenties and eager to forge a new life, returned to the US where--in corruption-ridden LA--he met his one great love, Cissy Pascal, a married woman eighteen years his senior. It was only during middle age, later his alcoholism wrecked a lucrative career an oilman, that Chandler seriously turned to crime fiction. And Philip Marlowe endures."--From publisher's description. |
| General note | "First published in Great Britain in 2012 by Aurum Press" --T.p. verso. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 357-360) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2013404716 |
| ISBN | 9781613748404 |
| ISBN | 161374840X |
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