![]() ![]() This is however vintage LA: the scent of rain on the tarmac, the lipstick wearing women, the cigarette ash everywhere and the guns, held aloft by one of the city’s tough guys. Racism is rife and rampant and shows the LAPD attitude to it at the time. To that extent the work is probably a five star crime novel. Some of the writing, particularly about scenery and metaphor is masterful. This protagonist is Philip Marlowe, a hard bitten private detective. This is a dark, dark city of Angeles, where the nightlife is one full of crime, death, drugs and guns. 'Farewell My Lovely' is a 1940 American Noir Crime Novel authored by Raymond Chandler. The setting and the characters in it belong to the city’s dark underworld. “Even on Central Avenue, not the quietest dressed street in the world, he looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.” One however described in Chandleresque terms: Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler 4.0 (21) Paperback (Reprint) 14.54 16.00 Save 9 Paperback 14.54 eBook 11.99 Audiobook 0.00 Audio MP3 on CD 14.99 Audio CD 24. This novel reads like you’re sitting in a old classic american car with the top down riding around Los Angeles with the commentary of Marlowe in your ear showing you the sights of the city you would normally miss.And of course the social commentary that you only get when riding around in the underbelly of the gritty, raw and racist Los Angeles that this is. ![]() ![]() ![]() 1940s Los Angeles – a world of grime and crime if ever there was one. ![]()
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