The Long Embrace: Raymond Chandler and the Woman He Loved
by Judith Freeman
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Author: Judith FreemanEdition: Hardcover
Published: 2007-11-06
ISBN: 0375423516
Number of pages: 368
Publisher: Pantheon
Book Reviews of The Long Embrace: Raymond Chandler and the Woman He Loved
Book Review: You need to be a Chandler fan
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a book especially for Raymond Chandler fans, who not only have read his books, but have read them a second time and enjoyed them even more.
The writer is obviously in love with Chandler and lovingly
describes his life in a fascinating travel of where he
lived, what he did while there, and the most important,
his relationship with his wife and how the relationship
influenced his writings ( and perhaps veiwpoint.)
I also enjoyed the writer's similies and approach. She
was almost an anthropologist in her study; perhaps she
was.
I think it is a fascinating book for those who don't
know Raymond Chandler, but most definitely an important
book for those who are Raymond Chandler fans.
I couldn't put it down, and re-read certain parts, too.
Kit Menkin
Summary of The Long Embrace: Raymond Chandler and the Woman He Loved
Raymond Chandler was one of the most original and enduring crime novelists of the twentieth century. Yet much of his pre-writing life, including his unconventional marriage, has remained shrouded in mystery. In this compelling, wholly original book, Judith Freeman sets out to solve the puzzle of who Chandler was and how he became the writer who would create in Philip Marlowe an icon of American culture.Freeman uncovers vestiges of the Los Angeles that was terrain and inspiration for Chandler’s imagination, including the nearly two dozen apartments and houses the Chandlers moved into and out of over the course of two decades. She also uncovers the life of Cissy Pascal, the older, twice-divorced woman Chandler married in 1924, who would play an essential role in how he came to understand not only his female characters–and Marlowe’s relation to them–but himself as well.
A revelation of a marriage that was a wellspring of need, illusion, and creativity, The Long Embrace provides us with a more complete picture of Raymond Chandler’s life and art than any we have had before.
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