After Juri's post, I pulled out my copy of Bad City Blues,
which I picked up a couple of years ago, but never got around
to reading. On the inside review page I found this quote from
the Glasgow Herald:
"Until this man put pen to paper, Raymond Chandler was
probably the only English writer with the talent, the
wherewithal and the sheer bottle to write a convincing
hard-boiled contemporary crime novel."
What about James Hadley Chase?
Obviously, I'm joking, but I am curious about the statement
that Chandler was an English writer. Sure, he spent some
formative years over there, and it had to effect his vision
of America and his writing about it, but "English writer"? I
think that's a stretch. Is that really how he is thought of
on the other side of the pond?
Mark
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