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R. Chandler: The Big Sleep
The Big Sleep was published in 1939 and was immediately labelled as " hard-boiled ." TheNew Yorker described it as a " terrifying story of degeneracy in Southern California by an author who almost makes Dashiell Hammett seem as innocuous as Winnie-the-Pooh ." Chandler, much more than any other detective story-writer in America, has established a tradition of which leading contemporary writers like James Ellroy could be regarded as the inheritors. As W.H. Auden wrote: " Chandler is interested in writing, not detective stories, but serious studies of a criminal milieu, the Great Wrong Place, and his powerful but extremely depressing books should be read and judged, not as escape literature, but as works of art ."
112 pages, Paperback
Published October 1, 1995
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