Playback
Book Details
| Title: | Playback | ||||||||||
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| Published: | 1958 | ||||||||||
| Publisher: | Houghton Mifflin Company | ||||||||||
| Tags: | detective, fiction, mystery, Philip Marlowe (Fictional character) | ||||||||||
| Description: | The last Philip Marlowe mystery novel completed by Chandler, set in a resort town on the coast of California. Marlowe is to follow a woman named Eleanor King, newly arrived in Los Angeles. Whether this is her real name is only one of the mysteries in store for Marlowe.
At one point, a woman asks Marlowe, "How can such a hard man be so gentle?" He replies, "If I wasn't hard, I wouldn't be alive. If I couldn't ever be gentle, I wouldn't deserve to be alive." And, in a rare happy ending for a Marlowe story, a lost love (from "The Long Goodbye") is found again. [Suggest a different description.] |
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| Downloads: | 6,063 | ||||||||||
| Pages: | 108  |
Author Bio for Chandler, Raymond
Due to his straitened financial circumstances during the Great Depression, Chandler turned to his latent writing talent to earn a living, teaching himself to write pulp fiction by studying the Perry Mason story formula of Erle Stanley Gardner. Chandler's first professional work, "Blackmailers Don't Shoot", was published in Black Mask magazine in 1933; his first novel, The Big Sleep, was published in 1939, featuring his famous Philip Marlowe detective character speaking in the first person.
In 1950, Chandler described in a letter to his English publisher, Hamish Hamilton, why he began reading pulp magazines and later wrote for them:
Wandering up and down the Pacific Coast in an automobile I began to read pulp magazines, because they were cheap enough to throw away and because I never had at any time any taste for the kind of thing which is known as women's magazines. This was in the great days of the Black Mask (if I...
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