The Long Goodbye
And (I have to separate these men from the rest) Pat Buchanan and Bob Dole. I heard them praising my father in order to praise themselves—using him, clutching wildly to his coattails in their race for the presidency.
An encounter with a drunk brings both adventure and trouble to a cynical middle-aged private detective
I kissed my mother's forehead—waxy, the way it had been for days now—and pushed her black hair back. ... in other times, and still does, in other places, but I wonder if it might have helped me to take care one last time of the body I'd ...
a list of his wife's lovers so that you might find a murderer among them ? " I didn't answer that either , but for different reasons . “ And would the name of Roger Wade appear on that list by any chance ? " she asked harshly .
"Anguished, beautifully written... The Long Goodbye is an elegiac depiction of drama as old as life.
In The Long Goodbye, author Michael Archer (a high school friend who joined the Marines together with Tom) chronicles his exhaustive search for answers to his friend's mysterious stroll into oblivion.
Nothing is what it seems as Marlowe unravels the Wades' scheme to expose the truth behind Lennox's facade. The most autobiographical of his novels, The Long Goodbye was considered by Chandler to be his best work.
Philip Marlowe becomes caught up in a case involving a battle-scarred alcoholic war hero, his nymphomaniac heiress wife, and both their suspicious deaths.
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Nothing is what it seems as Marlowe unravels the Wades' scheme to expose the truth behind Lennox's facade. The most autobiographical of his novels, The Long Goodbye was considered by Chandler to be his best work.
When Terry Lennox's wife is murdered, his friend, private detective Philip Marlowe, helps him to leave the country. The police arrest Marlowe, but then release him and, strangely, tell him to forget everything.
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In noir master Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye, Philip Marlowe befriends a down on his luck war veteran with the scars to prove it.
In this moving and illuminating portrait of a woman and her father, Patti Davis describes saying goodbye in stages, helpless against the onslaught of a disease that steals what is most precious—a person’s memory. “Alzheimer’s,” ...
The Long Goodbye