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The Big Sleep
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**The renowned novel from the crime fiction master, with the quintessential urban private eye (** Los Angeles Times **), Philip Marlowe. •** **Featuring the iconic character that inspired the film** Marlowe **, starring Liam Neeson.** **One of** The Atlantic **’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years** A dying millionaire hires private eye Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troublesome daughters, and Marlowe finds himself involved with more than extortion. Kidnapping, pornography, seduction, and murder are just a few of the complications he gets caught up in. “Chandler seems to have created the culminating American hero: wised up, hopeful, thoughtful, adventurous, sentimental, cynical and rebellious.” — *The New York Times Book Review*
| About Author | Raymond Thornton Chandler was an American novelist and screenwriter.In 1932, at age forty-four, Raymond Chandler decided to become a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company exe |
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| Author | Raymond Chandler |
| Book Series | Philip Marlowe |
| Format | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9780394758282 |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 136 |
| Publication Date | 07-11-1988 |
| Publisher | Vintage Crime |
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delphimo (verified owner) –
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler reeks in simile. The simile twinkles from every page with this brilliant technique. Death becomes the big sleep, and many characters plummeted into this sleep in this hard hitting and fast-moving detective story. The book opens with Philip Marlowe as he prepares to meet a new client, General Sternwood. What description of the Sternwood house? I can feel the heat forcing the perspiration. Can you just see Carmen Sternwood and her malicious innocence? The comparisons in the novel create laughs and build understanding of Marlowe. This explanation for poverty caught my attention “I been shaking two nickels together for a month, trying to get them to mate”. The line about the woman in the bookstore builds an unique description “approached me with enough sx appeal to stampede a businessman’s lunch”. Every page taunts with these witty remarks and provides a comic relief to all the killings. Raymond Chandler’s style lightens the story and moves the reader too quickly through the novel.