![]() ![]() The Long Goodbye is Chandler's most personal novel. ![]() In 1955, the novel received the Edgar Award for Best Novel. The novel is notable for using hard-boiled detective fiction as a vehicle for social criticism, as well as for including autobiographical elements from Chandler's life. ![]() Chandler himself, in a letter to a friend, called the novel "my best book" and recalled the agony of writing it while his wife was terminally ill. While some critics consider it inferior to The Big Sleep or Farewell, My Lovely, others rank it as the best of his work. The Long Goodbye is a 1953 novel by Raymond Chandler, centered on his famous detective Philip Marlowe. The English edition preceded the American by a few months. (Bruccoli A10.1.b.) First American edition, first printing. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4") bound in publisher's half blue cloth with green edges with black lettering to spine and cover in original jacket. ![]()
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