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The Long Goodbye
by: Raymond Chandler

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Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.52
EAN: 9780394757681
ISBN: 0394757688
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: August 12, 1988
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: August 12, 1988
Studio: Vintage
Sales Rank: 23721

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Product Description:
Marlowe befriends a down on his luck war veteran with the scars to prove it. Then he finds out that Terry Lennox has a very wealthy nymphomaniac wife, who he's divorced and re-married and who ends up dead. and now Lennox is on the lam and the cops and a crazy gangster are after Marlowe.

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- The Shadow Line
Raymond Chandler didn't start out as a "hardboiled" detective writer of the "noir" genre. He didn't start out as a detective writer at all. His first published writings were Romantic poems written when he was coming of age in England. He fell back on writing this sort of thing - the aforementioned "hardboiled" detective novel that The Long Goodbye is - when his business ventures had fallen through after his return to America. The reason for this biographical opening here is that this book reads so autobiographically to me. This is not to detract from the plot, which is quite well done and has been rehashed by all the reviewers here too often for me to need to rehash it. But I don't think I would have taken to the novel if it weren't for the autobiographical subtext - if that's quite the ... Read More

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- This man knows how to write.
Terse. Fast moving. Graphic. Totally believable characters. Exciting and suspenseful. It recaptures a bygone era, but people don't change all that much. What more do you want in a mystery?

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- The too-long Goodbye
Originally copyrighted and published 1953.

Chandler talked his way out of a 5-star rating by making the Goodbye a little too long. Atmospheric tale with dark, almost fatalistic mood gets lost with too much talking and and too many false endings after the climax.

Still, beautiful workout so well crafted with so much heart I can overlook the faults.

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- Swell
So read "The Long Goodbye" and you'll know why they call them "classics" - the kind of crime fiction that defined "noir", the stuff that their disciples - I'm talking about guys like Swierczynski, Bruen, Huston, Stella, McKinty, Connolly (John, not Michael) - who drank up Chandler like mother's milk and, standing on the shoulders of Chandler, Thompson, Hammett, McBain, have launched their own brand of hip, irreverent, in-your-face noir that will be the pulp fiction that our sons and daughters will revere and lionize decades from now. Stuff that was written in the 50s - those simple days before cell phones, computers, video games, or political correctness - but still relevant today and will still have you riveted to the pages as tight as Joe McCarthy chasing down the next suspected Communist pervert. ... Read More

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- Arguably Chandler's Best
You don't read Raymond Chandler for the plots--you read him for the magnificent "hard boiled" prose. The Long Goodbye is probably his most complex work, full of world-weary insights and a somewhat more "tender" Marlowe. The great pleasure of The Long Goodbye is seeing how the main character, Philip Marlowe, reconciles his cynical view of humanity with a genuine desire to help a few unfortunates in life. The best Marlowe... classic....

Donald Gallinger is the author of The Master Planets

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