Description: Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles by Elizabeth Ward and Alain Silver A photographic odyssey accompanied by passages from Chandler's greatest works. Dust jacket notes: Juxtaposing excerpts from Raymond Chandler's best loved novels and stories with stunning black and white photographs, this volume is a sumptuous tour of Los Angeles and its environs sure to delight fans of Chandler's work, film buffs, and veterans and visitors to the city. Fifty years have passed since Raymond Chandler published his first story in Black Mask magazine, twenty-five since his death. Chandler portrayed Los Angeles with a style that was at once realistic, cynical and romantic. A city of looming monoliths, endless urban alleyways, chains of suburbs teeming with illegal activity, all linked by wide boulevards and miles of expressways, provided the endless physical and moral sprawl for Phillip Marlowe's private peregrinations and investigations. The challenge to those searching for his footprints is to distinguish what Chandler saw from what he imagined of "that city rich and vigorous and full of pride, a city lost and beaten and full of emptiness." This book recaptures in photographs Chandler's literary odyssey through Los Angeles. Many of the sites no longer exist, victims of the continuing transmogrifications of the city. Yet Chandler's prose fixes these visions as neatly as the camera. Presented together these excerpts and photographs create the illusion of a city belonging to one man and transformed only by his imagination. In accompanying commentary, the authors provide fascinating information on the geography and architectural as well as the local history, apocrypha and folklore that has grown up around these haunts and the mythical detective/elusive writer who immortalized them. In over 100 black and white photographs and over 60 excerpts Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles is a visionary journey across a landscape of darkened bungalows, decaying office buildings and sinister nightspots. This unique and elegant book is a tribute to both the writer and his phantasmagorical City of the Angels. 1ST EDITION; 1987 The Overlook Press, 1st printing; VG+/VG+; vintage hardcover, shallow bumps and rubbing to extremities, binding square and tight, pages fresh, unmarked; bright, unclipped dust jacket, light ruffling along edges, minor chipping to extremities, half-inch tear upper fore-corner front panel, in new protective mylar sleeve Additional pictures of this item can be provided upon request. Please specify what aspects of the item you'd especially like to see. The Uncommon Book will combine shipping on your purchase of two or more books to save you money! International Buyers: Click on the tab above (just below the main picture) marked "Shipping and Payments" to find the cost of shipping to anywhere in the world! Be sure to add me to your favorites list!
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Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Type: Illustrated Book
Subjects: Art & Culture
Age Level: Adults
City: Los Angeles
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Dust Jacket, Illustrated
Book Title: Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles
Item Length: 8in.
Item Height: 1in.
Item Width: 5in.
Author: Elizabethm Ward
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Topic: Special Interest / Literary, Subjects & Themes / Regional (See Also Travel / Pictorials), Mystery & Detective, United States / General
Publisher: Abrams, Inc.
Publication Year: 1987
Genre: Photography, Travel, Literary Criticism
Item Weight: 32.1 Oz
Number of Pages: 234 Pages
