Over at the Los Angeles Times, Richard Rayner reviews The Long Embrace - Raymond Chandler and the Woman He Loved by Judith Freeman. The book focusses on Raymond Chandler and his obsession with another man’s wife.
Freeman traces the ups and downs of the marriage and career with utmost delicacy. We spend time with Billy Wilder [...]
The first chapter sings out with the tones of a siren.
Griffiths voice, his eloquence, entices us in. He brushes aside our protestations.
We want to urge him to be more careful, we don’t want to be told, we want to be shown. But he communicates through a third-person, a character without literary aspirations, the voice of [...]
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