About this episode
Joan Baum reviews Raymond Chandler's iconic hardboiled detective novel, 'The Long Goodbye', highlighting its themes and language.
It’s a vintage hardboiled detective novel, complete with greed, addiction, a mysterious death, and lots of colorful language. But WSHU’s Book Critic, Joan Baum, said Raymond Chandler’s iconic work, The Long Goodbye, and Chandler himself, are so much more.
People in this episode
Host: Joan Baum
Topics covered
- hardboiled detective novel
- literary critique
- Raymond Chandler
- mystery
- addiction
- greed
Keywords
- The Long Goodbye
- Raymond Chandler
- detective novel
- literary review
- mystery
- greed
- addiction
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: The Long Goodbye
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