The Long Goodbye

出版者:Penguin Books Ltd

作者:[美] Raymond Chandler

页数:0

价格:USD 6.5

isbn号码:9785550122921

具体描述

Down-and-out drunk Terry Lennox has a problem: his millionaire wife is dead and he needs to get out of LA fast. So he turns to his only friend in the world: Philip Marlowe, Private Investigator. He's willing to help a man down on his luck, but later, Lennox commits suicide in Mexico and things start to turn nasty. Marlowe finds himself drawn into a sordid crowd of adulterers and alcoholics in LA's Idle Valley, where the rich are suffering one big suntanned hangover. Marlowe is sure Lennox didn't kill his wife, but how many more stiffs will turn up before he gets to the truth?

作者简介

Best-known as the creator of the original private eye, Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888 and died in 1959. Many of his books have been adapted for the screen, and he is widely regarded as one of the very greatest writers of detective fiction.

用户评价

写硬汉小说的人都是脆弱的小孩。

#2020ReadingChallenge13 InvolvesAroundAPuzzle 十年了，重读起来好像更沉了一点。“the wild, mysterious, improbable kind of love that never comes but once.”钱德勒金句连连，和the Wades crossed fire的一大段几乎忘了Terry的案件线。十年前只记住头尾，原版果然能更体会乐趣。常看常新，多看一遍又多活一次。

这本书的战线被我拉得很长，中途看到一半将书落在飞机上，又重补了一本继续。钱德勒笔下的侦探小说文学性要远高于推理性，诡计，枪声和尸体只是穿插其中的点缀，而每每自觉要被淹没在缓慢推进的故事线中的时候，一段格外有韵味或哲理的文字就如同一剂浓鸡血，令人精神一振，继续投身于Marlowe的愤世嫉俗，执着以及奇特的忠诚当中。To say goodbye is to die a little.

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"The room is louder, two drinks louder."