![The High Window](https://cdn1.terrashop.org/knvpics/14/98/88/14988888N.jpg)
Verlag | Vintage, New York |
Auflage | 1992 |
Seiten | 272 |
Format | 20 cm |
Gewicht | 258 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
Reihe | Vintage Crime/Black Lizard |
ISBN-10 | 0394758269 |
EAN | 9780394758268 |
Bestell-Nr | 39475826EA |
From noir master Raymond Chandler, in The High Window we find a wealthy Pasadena widow with a mean streak, a missing daughter-in-law with a past, and a gold coin worth a small fortune-the elements don't quite add up until Marlowe discovers evidence of murder, rape, blackmail, and the worst kind of human exploitation.
"Raymond Chandler is a star of the first magnitude." Erle Stanley Gardner
"Raymond Chandler has given us a detective who is hard-boiled enough to be convincing . . . and that is no mean achievement." -- The New York Times
Rezension:
"Raymond Chandler is a master." -- The New York Times
"[Chandler] wrote as if pain hurt and life mattered." -- The New Yorker
"Chandler seems to have created the culminating American hero: wised up, hopeful, thoughtful, adventurous, sentimental, cynical and rebellious." --Robert B. Parker, The New York Times Book Review
"Philip Marlowe remains the quintessential urban private eye." -- Los Angeles Times
"Nobody can write like Chandler on his home turf, not even Faulkner. . . . An original. . . . A great artist." - The Boston Book Review
"Raymond Chandler was one of the finest prose writers of the twentieth century. . . . Age does not wither Chandler's prose. . . . He wrote like an angel." -- Literary Review
"[T]he prose rises to heights of unselfconscious eloquence, and we realize with a jolt of excitement that we are in the presence of not a mere action tale teller, but a stylist, a writer with a vision." --Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Review of Books
"Chandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence." -Ross Macdonald
"Raymond Chandler is a star of the first magnitude." --Erle Stanley Gardner
"Raymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since." --Paul Auster
"[Chandler]'s the perfect novelist for our times. He takes us into a different world, a world that's like ours, but isn't. " --Carolyn See