>>>>>
The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Non-Fiction
1909-1959, Edited by Tom Hiney & Frank MacShane, Hamish
Hamilton, $45.
http://www.theage.com.au/books/2001/02/19/FFXNIM51DJC.html
Oustanding review of the book - only takes about 5 minutes to
read.
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I'd hardly describe something as an outstanding review when
it starts like this:
"The first thing to ask about Raymond Chandler is why his
name lives on when those of best-selling contemporaries such
as Erle Stanley Gardner and James M. Cain are
forgotten?"
All the reviewer had to do was stop in any bookstore. Gardner
and Cain are still in print, and not forgotten in the least.
Shoddy research up front always turns me off. Now Charles
Williams, Norbert Davis, Leigh Brackett -- folks like them
really have been forgotten. Damn shame too.
BobT
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