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El Largo Adiós / the Long Goodbye

El Largo Adiós / the Long Goodbye

by Raymond Chandler
Paperback
Publication Date: 24/11/2015

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En El largo adi s, Marlowe se ve implicado accidentalmente en un asesinato. Deber resolver el misterio antes de que la polic a encuentre la forma de implicarlo o de que su vida caiga en manos de los verdaderos criminales.

La obra cumbre de Raymond Chandler. Edici n con la traducci n de Justo E. Vasco y ep logo de Ricardo Piglia.

El largo adi s, ganadora del Premio Edgar a la mejor novela en 1955, ha sido considerada como la mejor novela de la serie de Marlowe.

Una novela que a na crimen, misterio, bajos fondos y atracci n animal con una trama tan compleja como adictiva.

El veterano de guerra Terry Lennox tiene un problema: su esposa multimillonaria ha sido asesinada -es hija del magnate de la prensa Harlan Potter- y l necesita largarse de Los ngeles cuanto antes. Le pide a Philip Marlowe, con quien ha hecho amistad recientemente, que lo ayude a llegar al aeropuerto de Tijuana. As , el detective, fiel a sus ideales, terminar por ser c mplice del crimen principal en El largo adi s (1953), la sexta novela de la serie. Cuando Lennox se suicida en M xico dejando la confesi n de culpabilidad, el caso queda cerrado sin esc ndalos ni sensacionalismo... aunque hay algo que a Marlowe no le encaja. Est convencido de la inocencia de Lennox, pero podr demostrarlo? Cu ntas v ctimas habr antes de conseguirlo?

ISBN:
9786073133968
9786073133968
Category:
Short stories
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
24-11-2015
Language:
Spanish
Publisher:
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Country of origin:
Spain
Dimensions (mm):
190.5x127x25.4mm
Weight:
0.34kg
Raymond Chandler

Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888 but moved to England with his mother when he was twelve after his parents' divorce. He was educated at Dulwich College, London and studied international law in France and Germany. He published a number of poems and essays in local papers and worked as a reporter, essayist and book reviewer before emigrating to the United States in 1912. After serving for the Canadian Army during the First World War he tried a variety of jobs before becoming a bookkeeper and auditor for Dabney Oil Syndicate.

In 1924 he married Cissy Pascal. When Chandler lost his job during the Great Depression, he decided to devote himself to writing. He began writing short stories for Black Mask Magazine, the best known of the 'hard-boiled' school of pulp fiction magazines. In 1939 he published his first novel The Big Sleep to instant acclaim in Britain and the US, introducing the world to his iconic private eye, Philip Marlowe. Marlowe went on to star in almost all of Raymond Chandler's major works and with Farewell My Lovely (1940) and The Long Goodbye (1954) Chandler cemented his reputation as a giant of American popular culture and master of a style of detective fiction that would be widely admired and imitated. Chandler turned to screenwriting in 1943 with Double Indemnity and worked closely with director Billy Wilder.

He continued to write for Hollywood for the next four years, during the heyday of the Hollywood studio system, receiving an Oscar nomination for The Blue Dahlia (1946). In 1946 Chandler received an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for screenplay and in 1954 for novel writing. During the last year of his life he was made President of the Mystery Writers of America. He died from pneumonia in 1959.  

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