The Lady in the Lake
Chandler, Raymond
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
A couple of missing wivesone a rich man's and one a poor man'sbecome the objects of Marlowe's investigation. One of them may have gotten a Mexican divorce and married a gigolo and the other may be dead. Marlowe's not sure he cares about either one, but he's not paid to care.
BOOK REVIEWS
"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
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0394758250
ISBN(13-digit): 9780394758251
Copyright: 1992
Dewey Decimal: 813/.52
Library of Congress: 91050916
Book Publisher: Random House Inc
Language: ENG
Paper Weight (lb): 0.5
