R. Chandler – The Big Sleep
by Patrick Badonnel and Claude Maisonnat
Paperback (Published)
(October 1995)
ISBN: 9782864602552
Price: $19.00
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The Big Sleep was published in 1939 and was immediately labelled as ” hard-boiled “. TheNew Yorker described it as a ” terrifying story of degeneracy in Southern California by an author who almost makes Dashiell Hammett seem as innocuous as Winnie-the-Pooh “. Chandler, much more than any other detective story-writer in America, has established a tradition of which leading contemporary writers like James Ellroy could be regarded as the inheritors. As W.H. Auden wrote : ” Chandler is interested in writing, not detective stories, but serious studies of a criminal milieu, the Great Wrong Place, and his powerful but extremely depressing books should be read and judged, not as escape literature, but as works of art “.
- By (author) Patrick Badonnel
- By (author) Claude Maisonnat
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