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Elizabeth Ward and Alain Silver know their way around the City of Angels, its buildings and boulevards, its alleyways and environs, as well as Philip Marlowe. So get in your Oldsmobile and put the top down for this literary tour of a Lala Land that partly no longer exists and sometimes never was--for Raymond Chandler's locales, as the authors note, are "a pastiche of the real and the imagined." Mostly what we have here is the visual equivalent. Silver Lake became the less glamorous Gray Lake in the novelist's cynical prose; the fabled Bradbury Building (seen in the 1969 film Marlowe) became the Belfont. City hall is for real, of course, but nothing is quite what it seems.
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Elizabeth M. Ward, M.S, R.D., is a freelance writer and nutrition consultant in the Boston area. She is the author or co-author of Healthy Foods, Healthy Kids; Pregnancy Nutrition: Good Health for You and Your Baby, and the forthcoming The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Feeding Your Baby and Toddler. Ward writes for several publications, including Prevention, Men’s Fitness, Fit Pregnancy, American Baby, Boston Globe, Parents, and Parenting.
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- PublisherAbrams Press
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 0879512660
- ISBN 13 9780879512668
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages234
- EditorSilver Alain, Ward ElizabethM
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Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles: A Photographic Odyssey Accompanied by Passages from Chandler's Greatest Works
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Hardcover. Condition: USED_GOOD. No detective is more closely associated with a particular city than is Philip Marlowe with Los Angeles. Marlowe's creator, Raymond Chandler, painted for his a readers a vivid picture of a sun-drenched city eaten away by corruption of every stripe. But Chandler tended to fictionalize the names of the streets, the buildings, the restaurants that appear in his novels. So, in many cases, it fell to the authors of <i>Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles</i> to gather together, as Marlowe did, hints, clues, and leads to uncover the inspirations for the locales in Chandler's fiction.<p>For instance, in <i>The Long Goodbye</i> Marlowe spends time in the bar of what Chandler calls the Ritz-Beverly Hotel. No such hotel existed, then or now, but Ward and Silver make a convincing case for the Beverly Hills Hotel, home of the famous Polo Lounge, serving as Chandler's inspiration. </p><p><i>Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles</i> offers a wealth of photographs, making it as well suited to armchair travelers as to the standard variety.</p> Seller Inventory # SONG0879512660
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