

S'està carregant… Playback (1958)de Raymond Chandler
![]() No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. A private detective follows a woman and doesn't feel like stopping. 1/4 (Bad). Very little happens, nothing ends up mattering, and everything turns out to be exactly what it seemed like from the beginning. It was published posthumously, and it's supposed to be the last Marlowe novel Chandler completed, but I'm skeptical. (Apr. 2021) It feels like vacation for Marlowe with pieces of the case falling together more implausibly than women into his arms 5 seconds after meeting him with zero effort. The writing is still fast but the action and plot feel half-hearted with little to solve or fight for. Not the most riveting thing Raymond Chandler ever wrote (and it's a direct sequel to his previous novel The Long Goodbye, so don't start here if you're new to Chandler), but hey...it's better than The Little Sister. The "mystery," such as it is, loses steam well before the book's conclusion, but an older, randier Philip Marlowe has some interesting encounters with various walk-on characters at a swanky beach hotel while trying to solve a murder that may or may not have actually happened. (His conversation with the physically withered but mentally acute Henry Clarendon IV is especially good.) Derived from a screenplay that went unpublished in the author's lifetime, this final full-length Marlowe adventure will entertain Chandler's fans as long as they're not expecting too much. In terms of packaging, Playback is my favorite of the Black Lizard trade paperback editions of Chandler's works. See that shade of cool mint green on the front and back covers? It perfectly evokes the atmosphere of the novel, and the brighter, more acidic green on the spine looks fantastic on my bookshelf. Not the best Chandler. Apparently, it was the last novel in the Marlowe series. Others have nicely summarized the plot that finds Marlowe trying to understand why he has been asked to follow a woman arriving on the Santa Fe superliner. The plot's a bit weak, but you don't read Chandler for the plot. It's the characterizations and language that make Chandler so special. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
Pertany a aquestes sèriesPhilip Marlowe (7) Pertany a aquestes col·leccions editorialsdetebe (70/VIII) SaPo (54) Vampiro (147) Contingut aRaymond Chandler: The Library of America Edition de Raymond Chandler (indirecte) The Lady in the Lake, The Little Sister, The Long Goodbye, Playback (Everyman's Library) de Raymond Chandler The big sleep/Farewell my lovely/The high window/The lady in the lake/The long goodbye/Playback de Raymond Chandler Té l'adaptació
Marlowe is hired by an influential lawyer he's never herd of to tail a gorgeous redhead, but decides he prefers to help out the redhead. She's been acquitted of her alcoholic husband's murder, but her father-in-law prefers not to take the court's word for it. " Chandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence: " -- Ross Macdonald No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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![]() GèneresClassificació Decimal de Dewey (DDC)813.52 — Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1900-1944LCC (Clas. Bibl. Congrés EUA)ValoracióMitjana:![]()
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Another excellent well-written story. A re-read. (