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Raymond Chandler never wrote a memoir or autobiography. The closest he came to writing either was inand aroundhis novels, shorts stories, and letters. There have been books that describe and evaluate Chandlers life, but to find out what he himself felt about his life and work, Barry Day, editor of TheLetters of Nol Coward (There is much to dazzle here in just the way we expect . . . the book is meticulous, artfully structuredsplendid Daniel Mendelsohn; The New York Review of Books), has cannily, deftly chosen from Chandlers writing, as well as the many interviews he gave over the years as he achieved cult status, to weave together an illuminating narrative that reveals the man, the work, the worlds he created.
Using Chandlers own words as well as Days text, here is 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, and the changing vernacular of the cultural psyche that resulted. Chandler makes clear what it is to be a writer, and in particular what it is to be a writer of hardboiled 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, W. Somerset Maugham, and others (I wish, said Chandler, I had one of those facile plotting brains, like Erle Gardner).
Here is Chandlers Los Angeles (There is a touch of the desert about everything in California, he said, and about the minds of the people who live here), a city he adopted and that adopted him in the post-World War I period . . . Here is his Hollywood (Anyone who doesnt like Hollywood, he said, is either crazy or sober) . . . He recounts his own (rocky) experiences working in the town with Billy Wilder, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, and others. . .We see Chandlers alter ego, Philip Marlowe, private eye, the incorruptible knight with little armor who walks the mean streets in a world not made for knights (If I had ever an opportunity of selecting the movie actor who would best represent Marlowe to my mind, I think it would have been Cary Grant.) . . . Here is Chandler on drinking (his life in the end was in a race with alcoholand loneliness) . . . and here are Chandlers womenthe Little Sisters, the dames in his fiction, and in his life (on writing The Long Goodbye, Chandler said, I watched my wife die by half inches and I wrote the best book in my agony of that knowledge . . . I was as hollow as the places between the stars. After her death Chandler led what he called a posthumous life writing fiction, but more often than not, his writing life was made up of letters written to women he barely knew.)
Interwoven throughout the text are more than one hundred pictures that reveal the psyche and world of Raymond Chandler. I have lived my whole life on the edge of nothing, he wrote. In his own words, and with Barry Days commentary, we see the shape this took and the way it informed the man and his extraordinary work.
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My Life with Nol Coward
(with Graham Payn)
Nol Coward: The Complete Lyrics
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Nol Coward: Complete Sketches and Parodies
Theatrical Companion to Coward
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The Unknown Nol: New Writing from the Coward Archives
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The Letters of Nol Coward
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(contributor)
THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK
PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF
Copyright 2014 by Barry Day
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House LLC, New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto, Penguin Random House companies.
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Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered trademarks of Random House LLC.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Chandler, Raymond, 18881959
The world of Raymond Chandler : in his own words / edited by Barry Day.
pages cm
ISBN 978-0-385-35236-9 (hardback) ISBN 978-0-385-35237-6 (eBook)
1. Chandler, Raymond, 18881959. 2. Authors, American20th centuryBiography. 3. Detective and mystery storiesAuthorship. I. Day, Barry, editor of compilation. II. Title.
PS 3505. H 3224 Z 46 2014
813.52dc23
[ B ] 2014009321
Front-of-jacket photograph: Raymond Chandler TopFoto / The Image Works
Spine-of-jacket image: The Blue Dahlia 1946 Paramount Pictures, Inc.
Courtesy of Universal Studios Licensing LLC. Print: Photofest
Design by Carol Devine Carson
Book design by Cassandra J. Pappas
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Dedicated to the man who brought magic to the mean streets
And to Lynne (who makes magic on a daily basis)
Chandler switches from Black Mask to Dime Detective
Trouble Is My Business cover
Raymond Chandler in Los Angeles, 1940
Chandler, 1890
Florence Thornton Chandler
Chandler, c. 1896
Front view of Dulwich College
Aerial view of Dulwich College
Chandler as a student at Dulwich
Chandlers Dulwich College class, 1903
Chandler, 1905
Chandler, 1906
Chandler in Gordon Highlander uniform
Chandler, 1918, British Columbia Regiment
Chandler, 1918, R.A.F.
Chandler after the war
With his mother at Cypress Grove, California
Chandler, 1920s
Cissy Pascal
as an artists model
The Chandlers marriage license
The Accounting Department of the Dabney Oil Syndicate, 1920
Black Mask illustration
Black Mask cover
The Black Mask gang
Dashiell Hammett
James M. Cain
Erle Stanley Gardner
Ernest Hemingway
F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald
W. Somerset Maugham
Eugene ONeill
Alfred A. Knopf
Blanche Knopf
The Big Sleep jacket, 1939
Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart in The Big Sleep, 1946
Greystone Mansion
The Big Sleep, Hamish Hamilton, 1939
The Lady in the Lake, Hamish Hamilton, 1944
Chandler, 1939
Audrey Totter and Robert Montgomery in La Dame du Lac, 1946
Robert Montgomery as Philip Marlowe
The Dionne Quintuplets
Camel cigarettes
Marlowes assistants: the Luger P08, Colt .38, and Smith & Wesson .38
Marmon 34 Touring Car, Oldsmobile Series 60, 1937 Chrysler Airflow
Marlowes apartment building on Hightower Drive
Old Forester scotch
Huggins-Young coffee
Jacket for The Little Sister
LAPD badge
Prohibitionthe Volstead Act
Police cruiser, c. 1950
Los Angeles at night
Ross Macdonald
Los Angeles at night
Graumans Chinese Theatre
The house in which Joe Brody was murdered in The Big Sleep
Wilshire Boulevard, 1935
Hollywood Boulevard, 1937
Brown Derby restaurant
Vine Street, 1953
City Hall and Union Station
The Beverly Hills Hotel
Richfield Building, 1955
Bunker Hill
Art deco Sunset Tower
Bay City
Chandlers house at 6005 Camino de la Costa, La Jolla, California
The smog of Los Angeles
Hollywoodland sign
The Bronson Gate at Paramount
Chandler chats with Fred MacMurray
Chandler and Billy Wilder, 1943
Phyllis Dietrichson and Walter Neff, Double Indemnity, 1944
Letter to James M. Cain from Chandler
Cains reply
Walter Neff in the death chamber
Veronica Lake as Joyce Harwood in The Blue Dahlia
Lake with Alan Ladd on the movie poster for The Blue Dahlia
John Houseman
Chandler in 1945
Paul Henreid lights up Bette Davis in Warner Bros. 1942 Now, Voyager
Schwabs Pharmacy on Sunset and Crescent Heights
Dick Powell plays Marlowe opposite Claire Trevor in Murder, My Sweet, 1944
Howard Hawks
The Lady in the Lake, 1946
Farley Granger and Robert Walker, Strangers on a Train, 1951
Veronica Lake
Lauren Bacall as Vivian Regan in The Big Sleep, 1946
Audrey Totter as Adrienne Fromsett in The Lady in the Lake
Martha Vickers as Carmen Sternwood in The Big Sleep
Claire Trevor as Mrs. Grayle/Velma
Nancy Guild as Merle Davis in The Brashear Doubloon
Nina Van Pallandt as Eileen Wade in The Long Goodbye
The mature Taki with the mature Chandler, mid-1930s
Ray and Taki at work in La Jolla, c. 1948
April 9, 1948
Taki as a kitten, 1932
The Simple Art of Murder jacket
The Simple Art of Murder hardcover
Chandlers corrections for a draft of his sixth novel
Dame Agatha Christie
One of the many foreign-language editions
The Long Goodbye
Helga Greene
Natasha Spender
Foreign editions of Chandlers books
Chandler shortly before his death, 1959
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