Category Archives: Raymond Chandler

Raymond Chandler’s The Long Goodbye is grim and funny, its protagonist, Philip Marlowe, half hardboiled and mean, half incorruptible and true.  The Long Goodbye is a detective novel, but thanks to Marlowe’s narration the story resonates beyond a narrow classification. The quality of Marlowe’s observation as a narrator fills in the backstory the reader needs,Continue reading ““Sorry if I let my brains show”: Raymond Chandler’s The Long Goodbye”