false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173382910m/280513.jpg 280513 17 Most writers who work in a specific genre such as science fiction or detective stories write with a comfortable narrowness, their ambitions constricted by well-worn conventions; a rare few attain something much deeper, as the scope of their explorations and the originality of their prose operate in a kind of tension with the genre's confines. Ross Macdonald is one such writer. In a series of 25 novels written between 1944 and 1976, all but five featuring Lew Archer as protagonist, Macdonald picked up the baton dropped by Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett and took the genre to new heights. <P> <I>The Drowning Pool</I>, first published in 1950, is the second Lew Archer novel. It opens in classic hard-boiled fashion, with a well-dressed woman hesitantly engaging Archer's services at his L.A. office. Soon he's digging up secrets in her oil-rich hometown, and the themes that preoccupied Macdonald throughout his career begin to emerge: tormented families, buried secrets that fester through multiple generations, environmental destruction, concealed paternity, and the brutal contrast between rich and poor. Macdonald's later novels--including <I>The Galton Case</I> (1959), <I>The Chill</I> (1964), and <I>The Underground Man</I> (1971)--showed increased maturity and a tone less tied to tradition, but <I>The Drowning Pool</I> returns to the virtues that are the hallmarks of Mcdonald's work: complex and compelling plotting, psychological depth, just enough mayhem, and highly economical prose that routinely rises to something near poetry. 1442408 1972 The Drowning Pool total:219|5:50|4:91|3:69|2:9|1:0| 219 839 279 14 280513 0679768068 9780679768067 209 14 3.83 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173382910m/280513.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/280513.The_Drowning_Pool 4 0 false Mon Aug 24 08:29:30 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 08:55:45 -0700 2009 more...]]> 280513 0679768068 9780679768067 209 14 3.83 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173382910m/280513.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/280513.The_Drowning_Pool 4 0 false Wed Aug 05 19:51:43 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 09 15:53:30 -0700 2009 Farewell, My Lovely (among others).

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