The Long Goodbye
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Ratings37
Average rating4
In noir master Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye, Philip Marlowe befriends a down on his luck war veteran with the scars to prove it. Then he finds out that Terry Lennox has a very wealthy nymphomaniac wife, whom he divorced and remarried and who ends up dead. And now Lennox is on the lam and the cops and a crazy gangster are after Marlowe.
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Seems quite a lot longer than the other Chandler I've read, but it's worth it, absolutely brilliant with a final chapter that is well worth it. Now to go and watch the Altman film with Elliot Gould as the updated (to the 70s anyway) Marlowe.
Can't say I enjoyed this as much as the previous Chandler books I've read. I suppose the nastiness, racism and misogyny are hard to stomach despite the fig leaf of acceptability due to when it was written.
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8 primary books9 released booksPhilip Marlowe is a 10-book series with 8 primary works first released in 1934 with contributions by Raymond Chandler.
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