The Big Sleep
$22.63
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
18 March 2018
Summary
The Big Sleep: A Philip Marlowe Mystery
Los Angeles PI Philip Marlowe is hired by the wealthy Sternwood family. The aging, wheelchair-bound patriarch is being blackmailed, and he needs Marlowe to put an end to it. But with Sternwood’s two reckless daughters running wild through LA’s underbelly, Marlowe’s task is far from simple - and that’s before the bodies start piling up…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241956281 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241956285 |
| Series: | Phillip Marlowe |
| Author: | Raymond Chandler, Ian Rankin |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 18 March 2018 |
| Weight: | 183g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 16mm |
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Chandler seems to have created the culminating American hero: wised up, hopeful, thoughtful, adventurous, sentimental, cynical and rebellious
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 *Raymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since – Paul AusterRaymond Chandler is a star of the first magnitude – Erle Stanley Gardner
[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 * New York Review of Books *Raymond Chandler is a master * New York Times *Philip Marlowe remains the quintessential urban private eye
* Los Angeles Times *Nobody can write like Chandler on his home turf, not even Faulkner… A great artist * The Boston Book Review *Anything Chandler writes about grips the mind from the first sentence * Daily Telegraph *About The Author
Raymond Chandler
Best-known as the creator of the original private eye, Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888 and died in 1959. Many of his books have been adapted for the screen, and he is widely regarded as one of the very greatest writers of detective fiction.
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