Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles
by Alain Silver
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appears in About Los Angeles.
Reissued for the 50th anniversary of the film of Chandler's novel, The Big Sleep, this evocative and elegant book juxtaposes excerpts of Chandler's tough, cynical prose with blackandwhite photographs of the city he described as "no worse than others, a city rich and vigorous and full of pride, a city lost and beaten and full of emptiness." 100 ph...
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appears in About Los Angeles.
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