April 24th6:30pm
RSVP Required - see below
Join us for a walk on the wiiiiild side of crime fiction. We'll tour through the hardboiled classics of Chandler, Cain and Hammett; acquaint ourselves with contemporary masters like Ellroy and Mosley; international noir in translation; the fractured psyches of Thompson and Highsmith; even genre-bending experiments in horror and science-fiction!
We've got something to satisfy any and all tastes for all you darkly depraved delinquents.
This month we'll discuss Raymond Chandler's renowned novel, featuring the iconic character that inspired the film Marlowe, The Long Goodbye.
“Raymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since.” --Paul Auster
“Chandler seems to have created the culminating American hero: wised up, hopeful, thoughtful, adventurous, sentimental, cynical and rebellious.” --Robert B. Parker, The New York Times Book Review
In noir master Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye, Philip Marlowe befriends a down on his luck war veteran with the scars to prove it. Then he finds out that Terry Lennox has a very wealthy nymphomaniac wife, whom he divorced and remarried and who ends up dead. And now Lennox is on the lam and the cops and a crazy gangster are after Marlowe.
Contact Genay, at bookclubs@mcnallyjackson.com with any questions.
Reserve your place with a $5 voucher, redeemable on the night of the book club meeting on any product in store.