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02691aam a2200349 i 4500 001 5A632A90B99711E4BB0EA0C9DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20150221010033 008 140430s2014 nyua e 001 0aeng 010 $a 2014009321 020 $a 0804170487 020 $a 9780804170482 020 $a 0385352360 020 $a 9780385352369 035 $a (OCoLC)870896525 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d IG# $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d OCLCF $d OCLCQ $d UOK $d VP@ $d OCLCQ $d LE# $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 100 1 $a Chandler, Raymond, $d 1888-1959. 245 14 $a The world of Raymond Chandler : $b in his own words / $c edited by Barry Day. 264 1 $a New York : $b Alfred A. Knopf, $c 2014. 300 $a xx, 250 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 500 $a Includes index. 520 $a "The first book to give us the life and times of Raymond Chandler through his own writing-from the acclaimed editor of The Letters of NoeÌl Coward. Chandler never wrote an autobiography or a memoir. Now Barry Day, making use of Chandler's novels, short stories, and letters as well as Day's always illuminating commentary, gives us the life of "the man with no home," a man precariously balanced between his classical English education with its immutable values and that of a fast-evolving America during the years before the Great War, with its resulting changing vernacular. Chandler reveals what it was like to be a writer, and in particular what it was to be a writer of "hard-boiled" fiction in what was for him "another language." Along the way, he discusses the work of his contemporaries: Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Agatha Christie, Erle Stanley Gardner, Somerset Maugham, among others. Here is Chandler's Los Angeles, a city he adopted and which adopted him in the post-World War I period ... Chandler on his Hollywood, working with Billy Wilder, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, and others ... Chandler on organized crime and on his alter ego, Philip Marlowe, private eye, the incorruptible knight with little armor who walks the "mean streets" in a world not made for knights ... on drinking (his life in the end was in a race with alcohol--and loneliness) ... and here are Chandler's women-the Little Sisters; the dames-in his fiction-and his life"-- $c Provided by publisher. 700 1 $a Day, Barry, $e editor. 941 $a 6 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231020011525.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006082249.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20180905024929.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826101404.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20150515011632.0 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20150422011816.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5A632A90B99711E4BB0EA0C9DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search