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“[Chandler] wrote as if pain hurt and life mattered.” --The New Yorker
“Chandler seems to have created the culminating American hero: wised up, hopeful, thoughtful, adventurous, sentimental, cynical and rebellious.” --Robert B. Parker, The New York Times Book Review
“Philip Marlowe remains the quintessential urban private eye.” --Los Angeles Times
“Nobody can write like Chandler on his home turf, not even Faulkner. . . . An original. . . . A great artist.” —The Boston Book Review
“Raymond Chandler was one of the finest prose writers of the twentieth century. . . . Age does not wither Chandler’s prose. . . . He wrote like an angel.” --Literary Review
“[T]he prose rises to heights of unselfconscious eloquence, and we realize with a jolt of excitement that we are in the presence of not a mere action tale teller, but a stylist, a writer with a vision.” --Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Review of Books
“Chandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence.” —Ross Macdonald
“Raymond Chandler is a star of the first magnitude.” --Erle Stanley Gardner
“Raymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since.” --Paul Auster
“[Chandler]’s the perfect novelist for our times. He takes us into a different world, a world that’s like ours, but isn’t. ” --Carolyn See
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Best sledgehammer around,
Von Sandra McKinnon (sandracmc@aol.com) (Richmond, Virginia) - Alle meine Rezensionen ansehen
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The High Windowby Raymond Chandler The "High Window" begins one hot day in Pasadena, when "everything that grew was perfectly still in the breathless air they get over there on what they call a nice cool day." If we don't know we are in a Philip Marlowe novel yet, we do as soon as we meet his new client--a wealthy, obese widow named Mrs. Murdock. From the overgrown, dimly-lit sun room where she holds court, she gives Marlowe his latest p.i. assignment. He's to find a rare coin, the Brasher Doubloon, that was stolen from her possession. He's also to find her daughter-in-law, a former nightclub singer named Linda Conquest, who disappeared at the same time as the coin. "A charming girl--and tough as an oak board," Mrs. Murdock tells him, through sips of her port. Marlowe's search for the pair leads to a tale more dense and tangled than the thick foliage of his client's sun porch. He quickly finds himself enmeshed with a rich gambler and his philandering, showgirl wife; a thug with a frozen eye; and a mortician who delves into politics. Marlowe also has to contend with the police and a man in a sand-colored coupé who keeps tailing him. Then there are the corpses that keep piling up in his path. There's also his client, who has her own share of tightly-bound secrets. A near-invalid who spends her days lying on a reed chaise lounge, Mrs. Murdock still holds an iron grip on her effeminate son and the fragile woman who works as her secretary. The plot is fast-paced and engrossing, but the real power of the novel lies in the snappy dialogue and beautifully conveyed atmosphere. Chandler's style has been copied endlessly by other writers over the past fifty years, but no one can touch him. Marlowe's is a world filled with hard-eyed Filipinos answering doors, nightclubs named the Tigertail Bar, and women who are "all cigarettes and arched eyebrows and go-to-hell expressions." Even his butterflies take off heavily and stagger away "through the motionless hot scented air." As with the other Marlowe novels, there's the usual gratuitous wisecracks exchanged with minor characters--the sourpuss maid; the streetwise chauffeur; the old, watery-eyed elevator operator who breathed hard, "as if he was carying the elevator on his back." Despite his cynical words, Marlowe holds a special place in his heart for the losers in the world. He sends cash to a pitiful handwriting expert and takes an inept detective under his wing. "The shop-soiled Galahad," an associate calls him. For the rest of the characters, however, he has nothing but contempt. A tough man in a tough world, Marlowe doesn't hide his true feelings under a bushel. He describes the gambler's wife: "From thirty feet away she looked like a lot of class. From ten feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from thirty feet away." His instructions to the portly Mrs. Murdock: "Tell her to jump in the lake...Tell her to jump in two lakes, if one won't hold her." Chandler's master stroke as a writer is hyperbole. Even his silences are "as loud as a ton of coal going down a chute." He may write with a sledgehammer, but it's the best sledgehammer around. Helfen Sie anderen Kunden bei der Suche nach den hilfreichsten Rezensionen
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Another good Marlow detective mystery.,
Rezension bezieht sich auf: The High Window (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) (Taschenbuch)
This book could have received 5 stars, but I must confess that I did'nt like how the ending was resolved so quikly.Still it was a solid 4 star read. I will continue to read more of Raymond Chandler. Helfen Sie anderen Kunden bei der Suche nach den hilfreichsten Rezensionen
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Another gem from the number one in noir.,
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After jumping into the mystery-genre spotlight at the age of 51 with his classic first novel THE BIG SLEEP, Raymond Chandler went on to write six other novels which received considerably less acclaim than they deserved. THE HIGH WINDOW, published in 1942, sees Philip Marlowe, perhaps the most hard-boiled of all classic hard-boiled detectives, searching for a stolen rare coin and once again involved in the sordid affairs of the Los Angeles underworld, dealing with wealthy widows, tall blondes, showgirls, cops, and hitmen, and handling each in turn with the panache that only Marlowe could. Exquisitely plotted and written, THE HIGH WINDOW, like the rest of the Chandler library, is noir and the hard-boiled detective novel at its finest.
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