The Allegorical Big Sleep: Raymond Chandler's War, Philip Marlowe's Quest

by Richard Imbro

In The Big Sleep every death is a soldier's death: abrupt, and brutal, and often unjust. Even the quiet passing that Marlowe struggles to enable for his client, the "old and obviously dying" General, will be, naturally enough, a soldier's death. The Big Sleep is Chandler's meta-textual rumination on war, The Great War--Chandler's War.

And it's more, even, than that.

As did his beloved Shakespeare, Chandler wrote for all readers-casual...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0C6C6PT56
• ISBN13: 9798392924813
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 84 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.0" x 8.0"