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”
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Telling You All About the World: Margaret Atwood’s Good Bones and Simple Murders
Margaret Atwood is the kind of writer who pays very close attention to the world, observing the banal and the comfortable, and writing about it in such a way as to expose what makes the everyday of the Western world really weird and uncomfortable. Atwood deals with the possibilities of the world, the terrifying possibilities,Continue reading “Telling You All About the World: Margaret Atwood’s Good Bones and Simple Murders”
Grey Sea & Sky 