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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Raymond Chandler , Dorothy Gardiner , Katherine Sorley Walker , Paul SkenazyPublisher: University of California Press Imprint: University of California Press Edition: Revised ed. Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.00cm Weight: 0.318kg ISBN: 9780520208353ISBN 10: 0520208358 Pages: 275 Publication Date: 30 April 1997 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsIllustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Foreword Chronology 1. CHANDLER ON CHANDLER 2. CHANDLER ON THE MYSTERY NOVEL 3. CHANDLER ON THE CRAFT OF WRITING 4. A Couple of Writers 5. CHANDLER ON THE FILM WORLD AND TELEVISION 6. CHANDLER ON PUBLISHING 7. CHANDLER ON CATS 8. CHANDLER ON FAMOUS CRIMES 9. CHANDLER ON HIS NOVELS, SHORT STORIES AND PHILIP MARLOWE 10. The Poodle Springs Story Bibliography prepared by Paul Skenazy IndexReviewsRaymond Chandler Speaking offers us various unpublished pieces. . . and a large number of letters written to his publishers, agents, fellow writers and various friends. . . . Chandler's many admirers will find it a good value. Young writers chiefly concerned with the novel of action and violence should not miss it, for Chandler, at his best a master of this kind of fiction, has much to say that deserves their attention. --J. B. Priestley, New Statesman """""Raymond Chandler Speaking offers us various unpublished pieces. . . and a large number of letters written to his publishers, agents, fellow writers and various friends. . . . Chandler's many admirers will find it a good value. Young writers chiefly concerned with the novel of action and violence should not miss it, for Chandler, at his best a master of this kind of fiction, has much to say that deserves their attention.""--J. B. Priestley, ""New Statesman" A carefully edited, annotated, and where necessary amplified, selection of Raymond Chandler's, letters has also been arranged thematically, along with some notes on a few criminal cases and the opening chapters of a book left at his death in 1959. Chandler, according to many, surpassed Dashiell Hammett in the genre Hammett initiated, also gave the vernacular a range as well as a rasp it has never achieved since. Surprisingly, in private life, he was a ??, as well as a genuinely gentle man-although at times he claims to be a very content?? fellow . The opening chapter here fills in a few biographical facts on the Chicago ??, English educated writer, his marriage to the frail Cissy, her death and- hers and there his drinking. Most of the book focusses on writing and his critical criteria; his own work (for love, not money or prestige) and his own style which was sui generis ( when I ??spill an infinitive, God damn it, I spilt it so it will stay split ); on Hollywood- where the writer is revealed in his ultimate corruption ; on the film and television worlds; on publishing, other writers, critics, agents in a sphere where his own ethics remained incorruptible even though standards were often commercialized; etc., etc. Most of this is shoptalk but it reveals both the man and the medium in which he excelled and it should have an affi?? appeal. Beyond that, Chandler was decisive enough in his tastes and opinions as they are bluntly articulated here to give this correspondence character and spirit. (Kirkus Reviews) Author Information"Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) was born in Chicago but raised in London, returning to the U.S. to live in California in 1919. His first story, ""Blackmailers Don't Shoot,"" was published in 1933 and The Big Sleep, his first novel, in 1939.Paul Skenazy is the author of The New Wild West: The Urban Mysteries of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler and he is Professor of American Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz." Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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