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.

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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

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Books & works: The Long Goodbye

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