The Long Goodbye
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.
The long goodbye. Then he finds out that terry lennox has a very wealthy nymphomaniac wife whom he divorced and remarried and who ends up dead. Some critics consider it inferior to the big sleep or farewell my lovely but others rank it as the best of his work. Raymond chandler s the long goodbye is that sort of book that sort of friend. The long goodbye is a novel by raymond chandler published in 1953 his sixth novel featuring the private investigator philip marlowe.
The past few months have seen some bleak times an. The time period of raymond chandler s novel the long goodbye was updated from it original era of 1949 1950 to the hollywood of the 1970s. Despite this phillip marlowe elliott gould still drives a car from the 1940s. Robert altman s the long goodbye isn t only in my mind his greatest achievment it is one of the ten greatest film i ve seen to date.
It follows the private detector phillip marlowe who had had. The screenplay was written by leigh brackett who co wrote the screenplay for chandler s the big sleep in 1946.