A mysterious something in the light : the life of Raymond Chandler
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Victor Farmington Library - Adult Biography
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xv, 368 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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English

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"First published in Great Britain in 2012 by Aurum Press Ltd" --Title page verso.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-360) and index.
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"The life of Raymond Chandler has long been obscured by secrets and half-truths as deceptive as anything in his novel The Long Goodbye. Now, drawing on new interviews, previously unpublished letters, and archives on both sides of the Atlantic, Tom Williams casts a new light on this most mysterious of writers. Raymond is a man troubled by loneliness and desertion from an early age. Born in Chicago in 1888, his childhood was overshadowed by the collapse of his parents' marriage, his father's alcohol-fueled violence eventually forcing the boy and his doting mother to leave for Ireland and later London. but class-bound England proved stifling, and Chandler, in his twenties and eager to forge a new life, returned to the US where--in corruption-ridden LA--he met his one great love, Cissy Pascal, a married woman eighteen years his senior. It was only during middle age, later his alcoholism wrecked a lucrative career as an oilman, that Chandler seriously turned to crime fiction. And Philip Marlowe endures."--,From publisher's description.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Williams, T. (2013). A mysterious something in the light: the life of Raymond Chandler . Chicago Review Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Williams, Tom, 1981-. 2013. A Mysterious Something in the Light: The Life of Raymond Chandler. Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Review Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Williams, Tom, 1981-. A Mysterious Something in the Light: The Life of Raymond Chandler Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Review Press, 2013.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Williams, Tom. A Mysterious Something in the Light: The Life of Raymond Chandler Chicago Review Press, 2013.

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