Overview
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.
- | Author: Peter Wolfe
- | Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
- | Publication Date: Jan 01, 1985
- | Number of Pages: 252 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0879722940
- | ISBN-13: 9780879722944
