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<p>I don't know why the hell I write so many letters, Raymond Chandler once mused to a correspondent. "I guess my mind is just to active for its own good."</p> <p>In the seven novels from <i>The Big Sleep</i> (1939) to <i>Playback</i> (1958) and in a handful of short stories, Raymond Chandler recorded a vision of Southern California life sparked by acerbic observations on every level of coast society, from drug dealers and crooked cops to heiresses. But Chandler's gifts of observation and analysis extended well past the streets, alleyways, roadhouses, and stately homes that made up the world of his detective-hero Phillip Marlowe.</p> <p>Brought together in this volume are some of the hundreds of letters Chandler wrote-many of them composed during long, insomniac nights. Chandler commented on all that he saw around him, from his own personal foibles, to the works of his contemporaries Ernest Hemingway and Edmund Wilson, to education, English society, and world events. Acute, sometimes impassioned, often witty, the <i>Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler</i> contains lively anecdotes of Hollywood, critical dissections of his fellow writers of detective fiction, lengthy discussions of

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Author

Raymond Chandler; Frank MacShane

Publisher

New York: Columbia University Press

Published

1981

Language

EN

ISBN

9780231050807

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Memoir

Rating

4.28 / 5 (22 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14