Later Novels and Other Writings The Lady in the Lake/the Little Sister/the Long Goodbye/Playback/Double Indemnity/Selected Essays and Letters

"Chandler's baroque Los Angeles, with its juxtaposition of jacaranda trees and call houses specializing in 16-year-old virgins, is as tangible a location as we have in our literature. No place is boring in Philip Marlowe's world. Nothing is unimportant....In Philip Marlowe, Chandler seems to have created the culminating American hero: wised up, hopeful, thoughtful, adventurous, sentimental, cynical, and rebellious--an innocent who knows better, a Romantic who is tough enough to sustain Romanticism in a world that has seen the eternal footman hold its coat and snicker. Living at the end of the Far West, where the American dream ran out of room, no hero has ever been more congruent with his landscape. Chandler had the right hero in the right place, and engaged him in the consideration of good and evil at precisely the time when our central certainty of good no longer held.Chandler, Raymond is the author of 'Later Novels and Other Writings The Lady in the Lake/the Little Sister/the Long Goodbye/Playback/Double Indemnity/Selected Essays and Letters' with ISBN 9781883011086 and ISBN 1883011086.