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Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe: The Hard-Boiled Detective Transformed
John Paul Athanasourelis
McFarland
October 2011
On Sale: October 13, 2011
ISBN: 0786442158 EAN: 9780786442157 Kindle: B0067IA1LC Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Biography
Since their inception, detective novels have been a wildly
successful genre of American fiction, featuring a uniquely
American belief in rugged individualism. This book focuses
on Raymond Chandler's creation of Philip Marlowe, a
detective whose feeling for community and willingness to
compromise radically changed the genre's vigilantism and
violence. It compares Chandler's work to early and mid-20th
century American detective novels, particularly those by
John Carroll Daly, Mickey Spillane, Dashiell Hammett and
Ross Macdonald, as well as contemporary British detective
fiction, highlighting Chandler's contribution to the
American genre.
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