From the way he talks, you can tell he is intelligent and sharp-witted. There isn’t much in my trade.” Marlowe is well educated. In The Big Sleep, the book that precedes Farewell, My Lovely, Marlowe describes himself: “I’m thirty-three years old, went to college once and can still speak English if there’s any demand for it. And of course, that is what Raymond Chandler is doing: he is using Marlowe to explore a mythical, violent LA – and Chandler commits it to paper. In my mind, Marlowe is not only a detective, but a freelance writer for hire, someone who investigates stories for a living. Or rather, that I have started to wish I could be him. Since I’ve started writing for money, I have come to identify much more with Raymond Chandler’s enigmatic gumshoe, Phillip Marlowe. There’s a reason that Jason Schwartzman’s writer character in Bored To Death is reading Farewell, My Lovely when he decides to become a private detective. He takes us into a different world, a world that’s like ours, but isn’t.“It wasn’t any of my business. So I pushed open and looked in.” “Raymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since.” -Paul Auster “Raymond Chandler is a star of the first magnitude.” -Erle Stanley Gardner “Chandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence.” -Ross Macdonald
“he prose rises to heights of unselfconscious eloquence, and we realize with a jolt of excitement that we are in the presence of not a mere action tale teller, but a stylist, a writer with a vision.” -Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Review of Books He wrote like an angel.” - Literary Review “Raymond Chandler was one of the finest prose writers of the twentieth century. A great artist.” - The Boston Book Review “Nobody can write like Chandler on his home turf, not even Faulkner.
“Philip Marlowe remains the quintessential urban private eye.” - Los Angeles Times “Chandler seems to have created the culminating American hero: wised up, hopeful, thoughtful, adventurous, sentimental, cynical and rebellious.” -Robert B. “ wrote as if pain hurt and life mattered.” - The New Yorker "Raymond Chandler is a master." - The New York Times
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