[SNIP]*
> _Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles_--don't remember the
author(s), but
> it does include photographs of some of the places
Chandler wrote about.
> I've only glanced briefly through it--some of the
photos seem more
> arty than informative, but it is
interesting.
Yes, very interesting, especially for Chandler readers like
me who've
never been to LA. For those who don't know the book, it is
comprised of
aboutr 100 photographs (taken by the authors in the 1980s)
accompanied
by sixty-odd short extracts from Chandler's novels and
stories. There
is an introductory essay and some other useful bits of text.
The authors
are Elizabeth Ward and Alain Silver. They've written on film
foir as
well; bits of both books can be found on their web site (I
don't have
the url to hand, but any search engine should turn it up;
otherwise,
have a look under the Raymond Chandler section on my Watching
the
Detectives links page: <http://www.ejmd.mcmail.com/wtdlinks.htm>).
Another, similar, work is Edward Thorpe's _Chandlertown: The
Los Angeles
of Phillip Marlowe_ (London: Vermilion, 1983). Although a
slender
volume of just over 100 pages, this contains more text than
Silver &
Ward's 234 pager, and thus offers a lot more contextual
information.
ED
* For those rara-avians who do not know what 'SNIP' refers
to, it is the
editing-out (cutting, or 'snipping') of material previously
posted.
We don't need the whole of a forty-line message re-posted
just as a
prologue to your appended 'me too' or 'I agree' type
comments.
'Snipping' is to be encouraged at all times. Just try
it---it's easy,
it's rewardnig and it's FUN --- it just takes a little more
thought
than hitting the 'reply' button on your
browser/mailer.
Here endeth the Easter sermon.
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