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Raymond Chandler and the Woman He Loved
Pantheon
November 2007
On Sale: November 6, 2007
368 pages
ISBN: 0375423516
EAN: 9780375423512
Hardcover
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Fiction | Mystery
Raymond Chandler was one of the most original and enduring
crime novelists of the twentieth century. Yet much of his
pre-writing life, including his unconventional marriage, has
remained shrouded in mystery. In this compelling, wholly
original book, Judith Freeman sets out to solve the puzzle
of who Chandler was and how he became the writer who would
create in Philip Marlowe an icon of American culture. Freeman uncovers vestiges of the Los Angeles that was
terrain and inspiration for Chandler’s imagination,
including the nearly two dozen apartments and houses the
Chandlers moved into and out of over the course of two
decades. She also uncovers the life of Cissy Pascal, the
older, twice-divorced woman Chandler married in 1924, who
would play an essential role in how he came to understand
not only his female characters–and Marlowe’s relation to
them–but himself as well. A revelation of a marriage that was a wellspring of need,
illusion, and creativity, The Long Embrace provides us with
a more complete picture of Raymond Chandler’s life and art
than any we have had before.
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