Perchance to Dream
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| Rating | : | 4.58 (527 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1590075544 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 550 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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PERCHANCE TO DREAM, or PERCHANCE TO SLEEP? This novel seems to be only cursorily written by Robert Parker. It includes copious quotes borrowed from Chandler's original, THE BIG SLEEP. Regrettably, the direct contrast between these two writers this engenders only serves to illustrate just how lacking Parker's approach to Chandler's characters is. It is easy to imagine that the publishers hoped to capitalize on Chandler and Phillip Marlow's name recognition, and Parker (a much better writer than this volume demonstrates) was willing t. A pretty entertaining attempt at imitating Raymond Chandler A pretty entertaining attempt at imitating Raymond Chandler. It reads more like some of Chandler's early practice short stories than his complete novels. It has a slightly unfinished feel to it and is some what diminished by Parker's use of direct Chandler passages. Mr. Parker is a good writer but he is not Raymond Chandler (of course for that matter know one else is either). This is a nice novel if you don't expect the impossible. No writer can really imitate another especially one who wro. I love Robert Parker's books and I love to read all I love Robert Parker's books and I love to read all a author's works starting from the first book written. Amazon gives you the unique ability to find just the book you want and a good price for purchase delivered to your door. thank you amazon
He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.. Parker is the internationally best-selling author of the Spenser mysteries
In the sequel to Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep, Marlowe returns to save the Sternwood sisters from the clutches of evil. 2 cassettes.
Marlowe is beaten up, a chopped-up body is found and an ex-inmate of the asylum dies "accidentally" before the PI uncovers a water-rights scam involving millions. Psychotic Carmen Sternwood is missing from an expensive sanatorium. Sanatorium head Dr. Private eye Philip Marlowe spins a yarn of greed, madness and death with the cool-eyed cynicism (and good-guy core) that made him the classic hardboiled dick. This is dazzling. Parker's effort goes beyond pastiche: he uses flashbacks from The Big Sleep daringly and seamlessly, and his terse style (a cop asks for the time of death: "Any idea when yet?") is flawlessly in Chandler's footsteps. . From Publishers Weekly Parker, author of the Spenser novels, has made this "sequel to Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep " a stunning, drop-dead success. After sultry Vivian has enlisted suave gangster