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Title: The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction 1909-1959 by Raymond Chandler, Tom Hiney, Frank Macshane ISBN: 0-8021-3946-9 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Repeat material
Comment: I was surprised that so much material from a previous collection ('Selected letters of Raymond Chandler', ed. McShane, 1981)is repeated in this book. Maybe I didn't do my homework, but I don't recall this fact being mentioned in promotions or reviews. When you're paying (as I did) [price] for a book, it's disappointing to keep coming across previously published letters. Chandler's writing is still great, but I'm sure he'd have something to say about this practice.
Rating: 4
Summary: So good it'll make a bishop kick in a stained glass window
Comment: What a fun collection this is! Another book of letters by another famous author I read recently was embarrassingly boring--it never should have been printed. But Chandler's style and pithy observations make this collection a treat. Though a loner and a lush, he maintained cordial relations with his colleagues, and his comments on the passing scene are keen. From acerbic observations on life in southern California, to wry descriptions of his cat's habits, to sometimes generous and sometimes acerbic appraisals of agents, publishers, and fellow writers, his prose is absolutely sparkling.
His coverage of Oscars night in the mid-Forties for The Atlantic magazine is a masterpiece of scorn for the glitterati. Around the same time he accurately dismisses the new medium of television's supposed threat to the book industry. People who tune in to watch "fourth-rate club fighters rub noses on the ropes are not losing any time from book reading." Just as frequently, Chandler comes across as thoughtful and a good friend--not at all Marlowe-ish, though you get the feeling he could be a tough guy if need be. If you read only one book of collected letters of a famous author this year, etc.
Rating: 4
Summary: Poet Laureate of the Loner
Comment: Chandler had probably never seen most of the people with whom he corresponded in his letters, but his opinions on everything from the plight of the writer in Hollywood to the merits of housecats are not only witty and memorable, but also indicate an extremely thoughtful man and first-rate analytical mind. The only problem I had with Hiney's editing is that a bit more could have been explained--although some of the context of each letter is provided, additional information would have been helpful. I believe I would have appreciated Chandler's observations even more had this been the case.
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Title: Raymond Chandler by Tom Hiney ISBN: 0802136370 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Raymond Chandler Speaking by Raymond Chandler, Kathrine Sorley Walker, Dorothy Gardiner, Paul Skenazy ISBN: 0520208358 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Raymond Chandler: Collected Stories (Everyman's Library) by Raymond Chandler, John Bayley ISBN: 0375415009 Publisher: Everyman's Library Pub. Date: 08 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: Hardboiled Mystery Writers: Raymond Chandler, Dashiel Hammett, Ross Macdonald: A Literary Reference by Matthew J. Bruccoli, Richard Layman ISBN: 0786710292 Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers Pub. Date: 10 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Raymond Chandler: A Literary Reference by Robert F. Moss ISBN: 0786711795 Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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