Something More Than Night : the Case of Raymond Chandler - Softcover

Peter Wolfe

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0879722940 ISBN 13: 9780879722944

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985

Synopsis

Raymond Chandler's eminence as a mystery writer is unchallenged. Somerset Maugham and George Grella both rate him above Dashiell Hammett; Eric Partridge deems him "a serious artist and a very considerable novelist," while praising him as "one of the finest novelists of his time." Peter Wolfe examines the many sides of Chandler and his work-his apparent will to self-destruct, his obsession with beautiful women, and his apparent brush with homosexuality-and casts much new and needed light on this major American author.

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Something More Than Night : the Case of Raymond Chandler Raymond Chandler's eminence as a mystery writer is unchallenged. Somerset Maugham and George Grella both rate him above Dashiell Hammett; Eric Partridge deems him "a serious artist and a very considerable novelist," while praising him as "one of the finest novelists of his time." Peter Wolfe examines the many sides of Chandler and his work--his apparent will to self-destruct, his obsession with be Full description

About the Author:

Peter Wolfe is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Missouri, St. Louis.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0879722940
• ISBN 13: 9780879722944
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 242