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The Annotated Big Sleep presents Chandler’s 1939 masterpiece in full, accompanied by hundreds of notes and images that explore the novel’s setting, themes, and genre significance. Glean insights from personal letters, maps of Los Angeles, early pulp art, and an analysis of class, gender, sexuality, and ethnicity that bring the noir landscape and its iconic private investigator Philip Marlowe to vivid life.
First publish date: 2018
Genre: Mystery & Detective/Private Investigator
Authors: Raymond Chandler
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