Marlowe: A Novel [Paperback]

Raymond Chandlers Philip Marlowe returns in award-winning author John BanvillesMarloweoriginally published asThe Black-Eyed Blondeunder the pen nameBenjamin Blackthe basis for the major motion picture starring Liam Neeson as the iconic detective.

Somewhere Raymond Chandler is smiling . . . I loved this book. It was like having an old friend, one you assumed was dead, walk into the room.
Stephen King

It was one of those Tuesday afternoons insummerwhen you wonder if the earth has stopped revolving.

The streets of Bay City, California, in the early 1950s are as mean as they get. Marlowe is as restless and lonely as ever, and the private eye business is a little slow. Then a new client is shown in: blond, beautiful, and expensively dressed, she wants Marlowe to find her former lover.

Almost immediately, Marlowe discovers that the man's disappearance is merely the first in a series of bewildering events. Soon he is tangling with one of Bay City's richest and most ruthless familiesand developing a singular appreciation for how far they will go to protect their fortune.

Its vintage L.A., toots: The hot summer, rain on the asphalt, the woman with the lipstick, cigarette ash and alienation, V8 coupes, tough guys, snub-nosed pistols, the ice melting in the bourbon . . . . The results are Chandleresque, sure, but you can see Banvilles sense of fun.
The Washington Post

JOHN BANVILLE, the author of twenty novels, has been the recipient of the Man Booker Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Guardian Fiction Award, the Franz Kafka Prize, a Lannan Literary Award for Fiction, and the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature. He also writes as Benjamin Black. He lives in Dublin.

A bull's-eye. The New York Times

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