Overview
During a period of twenty yearsāfrom his start as a young writer for H. L. Menckenās classic pulp magazine The Black Mask in the early 1930s, through the publication of his novels The Big Sleep and Farewell, My Lovely, to his career as a Hollywood screenwriter in the 1940sāRaymond Chandler kept a series of private notebooks.
Drawn from those journals, The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler offers an intimate view of the writer at work, revealing early ideas, descriptions, and anecdotes that would later be used in The Long Goodbye, The Blue Dahlia, and other classics.
Filled with both public and private writings, The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler includes āMarlowesqueā particulars such as pickpocket lingo, San Quentin jailhouse slang, a āNote on the Tommygun,ā and musings on āCraps.ā Here, too, are surprising, lesser known essays on Hollywood, the mystery story, British and American writing, and a wicked parody of Hemingway. This samplerāby turns whimsical, provocative, irreverent, and fascinatingāalso contains a list of possible story titles; āChandlerisms;ā and his short work āEnglish Summer: A Gothic Romance,ā which the writer viewed as a turning point in his career.
This book title, The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler, ISBN: 9780061227448, by Raymond Chandler, Raymond Chandler, published by HarperCollins (October 20, 2015) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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