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Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles

by Elizabeth M. Ward · 1987

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Reissued for the 50th anniversary of the film of Chandler's novel, The Big Sleep, this evocative and elegant book juxtaposes excerpts of Chandler's tough, cynical prose with black-and-white photographs of the city he described as "no worse than others, a city rich and vigorous and full of pride, a city lost and beaten and full of emptiness." 100 photos.

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Audience
adult
Length
medium · 240 pages

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