The Big Sleep (a Philip Marlowe Novel) (libro En Inglés)

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Nombre: The Big Sleep (A Philip Marlowe Novel) (Libro en Inglés)
Marca: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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The renowned novel from crime fiction master Raymond Chandler, with the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times), Philip Marlowe Featuring the iconic character that inspired the forthcoming film Marlowe, starring Liam Neeson

A dying millionaire hires private eye Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troublesome daughters, and Marlowe finds himself involved with more than extortion. Kidnapping, pornography, seduction, and murder are just a few of the complications he gets caught up in.

Amazon.com Review

"His thin, claw-like hands were folded loosely on the rug, purple-nailed. A few locks of dry white hair clung to his scalp, like wild flowers fighting for life on a bare rock." Published in 1939, when Raymond Chandler was 50, this is the first of the Philip Marlowe novels. Its bursts of sex, violence, and explosively direct prose changed detective fiction forever. "She was trouble. She was tall and rangy and strong-looking. Her hair was black and wiry and parted in the middle. She had a good mouth and a good chin. There was a sulky droop to her lips and the lower lip was full."

From Library Journal

Chandler is not only the best writer of hardboiled PI stories, he's one of the 20th century's top scribes, period. His full canon of novels and short stories is reprinted in trade paper featuring uniform covers in Black Lizard's signature style. A handsome set for a reasonable price.
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Review

"Raymond Chandler is a master." --The New York Times

[Chandler] wrote as if pain hurt and life mattered. --The New Yorker

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

Philip Marlowe remains the quintessential urban private eye. --Los Angeles Times

Nobody can write like Chandler on his home turf, not even Faulkner. . . . An original. . . . A great artist. The Boston Book Review

Raymond Chandler was one of the finest prose writers of the twentieth century. . . . Age does not wither Chandlers prose. . . . He wrote like an angel. --Literary Review

[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, The New York Review of Books

Chandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence. Ross Macdonald

Raymond Chandler is a star of the first magnitude. --Erle Stanley Gardner

Raymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since. --Paul Auster

[Chandler]s the perfect novelist for our times. He takes us into a different world, a world thats like ours, but isnt. --Carolyn See



From the Inside Flap

When a dying millionaire hires Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troublesome daughters, Marlowe finds himself involved with more than extortion. Kidnapping, pornography, seduction, and murder are just a few of the complications he gets caught up in.

"Chandler [writes] like a slumming angel and invest[s] the sun-blinded streets of Los Angelos with a romantic presence."
--Ross Macdonald

From the Back Cover

When a dying millionaire hires Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troublesome daughters, Marlowe finds himself involved with more than extortion. Kidnapping, pornography, seduction, and murder are just a few of the complications he gets caught up in.
"Chandler [writes] like a slumming angel and invest[s] the sun-blinded streets of Los Angelos with a romantic presence."
--Ross Macdonald

About the Author

Raymond Thornton Chandler (1888 - 1959) was the master practitioner of American hard-boiled crime fiction. Although he was born in Chicago

CARACTERÍSTICAS PRINCIPALES:

-Idioma: Inglés
-Envío: Desde EE. UU.
-Libro Impreso y Nuevo

MÁS DETALLES:

Tiempo de entrega: 10 días
Peso del paquete: 1 kg
Medidas: 5 cm x 22 cm x 27 cm cm
Material: Papel
Modelo: 9780394758282
Meses de garantía: 1
Garantía: Por defecto de fabricación
Condición: Nuevo
Color: Multicolor
Nombre de color: Multicolor
ASIN: 0394758285
País de producción: United States
Encuadernado: Pasta blanda
Editorial: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Titulo del libro: The Big Sleep (A Philip Marlowe Novel) (Libro en Inglés)
Autor: Chandler, Raymond
Fecha de publicación: 1988
Idioma: Inglés
Edición: 1
Número de páginas: 231
ISBN-13: 9780394758282
Edad mínima sugerida: 6
Genero musical: Literatura Universal
Contenido del paquete: 1 pieza
SKU: 9780394758282