![]() ![]() After his mother fled America, Chandler was schooled in London, but felt constrained by the stuffy English class system, eventually returning to the land of his birth, where-in corruption-ridden Los Angeles-he met his one great love: Cissy Pascal, a married woman eighteen years his senior. ![]() Born in Chicago in 1888, his childhood was overshadowed by the cruel collapse of his parents’ marriage and his father’s alcohol-fueled violence. The Chandler revealed is a man troubled by loneliness and desertion from an early age-experiences that fueled his writing as much as they scarred his life. Now, drawing on new interviews, previously unpublished letters, and archives on both sides of the Atlantic, literary gumshoe Tom Williams casts light on this most mysterious of writers. What we know of Raymond Chandler is shrouded in secrets and half-truths as deceptive as anything in his magisterial novel The Long Goodbye. “A remarkably detailed portrait of the famously hard-boiled writer” and creator of the popular gumshoe, Philip Marlowe ( Publishers Weekly). ![]()
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