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rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Victoria Two
<msvictoriatwo@y...> wrote:
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> Just finished The Chill by Ross Macdonald, published
in 1964. I
read it pretty much straight thru -- it's short -- and then
had a thought which I would like to ask those who know. I am
sure that graduate students have given their lives for this,
but I just need a short and simple answer since I know the
general outline of the author's life but have not read a
detailed biography.
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> SPOILER and you really do not want to continue if
you have not
read this noir classic.
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> As soon as I got to the end of the book I had a
strong feeling
that the younger-man/older-woman scenario was a comment on
Raymond Chandler's marriage. If it is, that is probably
common knowledge that I am too out of fashion to have picked
up. I think I remember reading
(too long ago to pin down) that Mrs. Chandler was sometimes
mistaken for Raymond's mother. On the other hand, none of my
fast searches turned up a relationship between The Chill. So,
any thoughts?
Cissy Chandler was 18 years his senior, and they married when
he was late 30s, IIRC. Haven't read The Chill, but if it's a
obvious commentary, you could do a good paper on hard-boiled
authors taking shots at each other.
/Chandler offs an obvious Hammett in The Long Goodbye, after
first enmasculating him.
//Aside: Elliot Gould as Marlowe?
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