El sueño eterno - Softcover

RAYMOND CHANDLER

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8496390055 ISBN 13: 9788496390058

Publisher: Diario El País, 2004

Synopsis

BLACK SERIES THE COUNTRY , THE AUTHOR :: 236pp..SOBRE Raymond Thornton Chandler (Chicago, July 22, 1888 - La Jolla , California, March 26, 1959 ) was an American author of novels negra.Su father, a civil engineer American alcoholic , abusive , abandoned his family and divorced his wife , who lived with his maternal uncles , and she took her son to England that he might receive a solid literary education . Aided by a prosperous Irish Quaker lawyer who was also his mother's uncle , studied at Dulwich College London (1900-1905) to classic and modern ; It was a public school where they had made also writers like PG Wodehouse and CS Forester . He then traveled to France and Germany (1905-1907) and nationalized British in 1907. After a brief stint at the Admiralty who left due to not sympathize with military conduct , worked as a reporter for the London Daily Express and for Bristol Western Gazette ( 1908-1912 ) . He published 27 poems and his first story The Rose Romance Leaf before returning to the United States in 1912 with money borrowed from his Irish uncle. He visited his mother and his other uncles and settled in San Francisco , where he learned accounting correspondence , then in Los Angeles with his mother in 1913. He served in the First World War as a soldier of the Highlander Gordon of Canada in the trenches on the French front and was preparing as a fighter pilot in the RAF when the war ended and he returned to California, where they already live the rest of his life , working as a bank clerk . When his mother died in 1924 , he married Pearl Cecily Bowen ( Cissy Pascal ) , eighteen years his senior, a woman with whom he had already begun -not relations adopted by his mother , when she was married and once divorced and the marriage took place , this lasted almost thirty years until her death in 1954 , but had no children. In 1932 , Chandler had managed to be named vice Dabney Oil Syndicate in Signal Hill ( California) , but lost this lucrative job because of

About this edition

• Publisher: Diario El País
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 8496390055
• ISBN 13: 9788496390058
• Binding: Paperback