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Bezig met laden... The Long Embrace: Raymond Chandler and the Woman He Loveddoor Judith Freeman
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. traces Chandler marriage, all the places they lived, was Chandler repressed homosexual, etc. I love Raymond Chandler. Really I do and I loved the concept of this book of trying to find the man, and the key to the most important relationship in his life, between him and his wife Cissy, by tracing where they lived. This was interesting because Chandler burned all their letters after she died, leaving biographers no insight into what must have been the most important relationship in his life. I was primed to like this book and so, frankly, it sort of pisses me off that I don't. Some parts work, when she can go to a building that still exists and talks about it, but most is her rambling on about 'Ray' as though she knows him. Annoying! Freeman spins an excellent detective story surmising what marriage was like to Cissy, his wife of 30 years, and who was 18 woman 18 years older than he. This turns out to be even more remarkable when the reader learns early that Chandler burned nearly all of their correspondence together. Perhaps the most interesting aspect of Chandler's life was that he lived in more than thirty apartments and houses during his adult years in Los Angeles, where he spent virtually all those years. Freeman visits every one of them, and correlates what Chandler was writing at each address. Chandler drank himself to death after Cissy died, so the end of this fascinating biography is a heart-breaking love story. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Raymond Chandler was one of the most original and enduring crime novelists of the twentieth century. Yet much of his pre-writing life, including his unconventional marriage, has remained shrouded in mystery. In this wholly original book, author Freeman sets out to solve the puzzle of who Chandler was and how he became the writer who would create in Philip Marlowe an icon of American culture. Freeman uncovers vestiges of the Los Angeles that was terrain and inspiration for Chandler's imagination, including the nearly two dozen apartments and houses the Chandlers lived in over the course of two decades. She also uncovers the life of Cissy Pascal, the older, twice-divorced woman Chandler married in 1924, who would play an essential role in how he came to understand not only his female characters--and Marlowe's relation to them--but himself as well.--From publisher description. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.52Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1900-1944LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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