The Long Goodbye
Raymond Chandler • 1953
Devastation Rating
literary fiction loss friendship betrayal
Our Take
Marlowe makes a friend and loses him and that grief is the whole engine. Chandler writes Los Angeles as a city that eats loyalty and sells the bones, and underneath the hard-boiled prose is something genuinely bereft — a man who knows that friendship at that depth is something a detective cannot afford.
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