Status
Available
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Publication
New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 1997.
Description
For this major new biography, Tom Hiney has had access to unseen personal papers, as well as previously unrecorded reminiscences by those who knew Chandler well. In the light of new discoveries a rawer, more complex, brilliant, and twisted Chandler emerges.
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Contains relatively little about his writing process, focusing instead on what was going on in his life. By page count, most attention paid to his latter years when most of his output was behind him. How he managed to function at all in the latter stages of his alcoholism boggles the mind.
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the most intriguing throwaways was that apparently Dr. Seuss was a drinking buddy. Show Less