![]() ![]() It was later adapted as a 1973 film of the same name, updated to 1970s Los Angeles and starring Elliott Gould. ![]() In 1955, the novel received the Edgar Award for Best Novel. The novel is notable for using hard-boiled detective fiction as a vehicle for social criticism and for including autobiographical elements from Chandler's life. And now Lennox is on the lam and the cops and a crazy gangster are after Marlowe. Then he finds out that Terry Lennox has a wealthily nymphomaniac wife, who he’s divorced and re-married and who ends up dead. Marlowe befriends a down on-his-luck war veteran with the scars to prove it. Chandler, in a letter to a friend, called the novel "my best book". Some critics consider it inferior to The Big Sleep or Farewell, My Lovely, but others rank it as the best of his work. The Long Goodbye is a novel by Raymond Chandler, published in 1953, his sixth novel featuring the private investigator Philip Marlowe. ![]()
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