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THE LONG GOOD-BYE.
de CHANDLER, RAYMOND
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London: Hamish Hamilton, [1953]., 1953. First edition. First edition. Precedes U.S. edition published in 1954. Fine, bright copy in price-clipped dust jacket with light professional restoration at the edges. Edgar award winner for best mystery novel of 1955. H.R.F. Keating lists it as #49 on his 100 Best Crime & Mystery Books. 20th Century Crime and Mystery Writers says, "The Long Good-Bye seems to me not only Chandler's best but the masterwork of hard-boiled detective-fiction, providing an image of how much can be done with the genre." In 1973 a movie directed by Robert Altman, with Leigh Brackett as screenwriter, and starring Elliott Gould was unfavorably reviewed as being "a spit in the eye to a great writer." Housed in a cloth clamshell case that is imprinted with the book's dust jacket design.
Sinopsis
Raymond Thornton Chandler (1888 - 1959) was the master practitioner of American hard-boiled crime fiction. Although he was born in Chicago, Chandler spent most of his boyhood and youth in England where he attended Dulwich College and later worked as a freelance journalist for The Westminster Gazette and The Spectator . During World War I, Chandler served in France with the First Division of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, transferring later to the Royal Flying Corps (R. A. F.). In 1919 he returned to the United States, settling in California, where he eventually became director of a number of independent oil companies. The Depression put an end to his career, and in 1933, at the age of forty-five, he turned to writing fiction, publishing his first stories in Black Mask . Chandler’s detective stories often starred the brash but honorable Philip Marlowe (introduced in 1939 in his first novel, The Big Sleep ) and were noted for their literate presentation and dead-on critical eye. Never a prolific writer, Chandler published only one collection of stories and seven novels in his lifetime. Some of Chandler’s novels, like The Big Sleep , were made into classic movies which helped define the film noir style. In the last year of his life he was elected president of the Mystery Writers of America. He died in La Jolla, California on March 26, 1959.
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- Título
- THE LONG GOOD-BYE.
- Autor
- CHANDLER, RAYMOND
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- Usado
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- First edition
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- Hamish Hamilton, [1953].
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1953
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