The Raymond Chandler Map of Los Angeles
Description
Few writers are as inextricably linked with a city as Raymond Chandler and Los Angeles. The neon-lit streets, mobbed-up joints and seedy rooming houses portrayed in his fiction were real places, familiar to Angelenos of the time, and in some cases recognisable today.This is a guide to the world of Raymond Chandler and his noble alter-ego, the private detective Philip Marlowe. It mixes locations from the books, the films and Chandler's personal life. There's the crummy dive where Moose Malloy went looking for Velma; the actual lounge where Marlowe and Terry Lennox ordered gimlets; the top-floor suite where oil executive Chandler got his priceless education in how a dirty, sun-drenched city really operated.
This is the Los Angeles that Raymond Chandler carried in his heart. And now, you can too.
Product Details
Price
$6.95
$6.46
Publisher
Herb Lester Associates
Publish Date
October 01, 2014
Pages
1
Dimensions
4.5 X 6.0 X 0.1 inches | 0.05 pounds
Language
English
Type
Folded
EAN/UPC
9781910023464
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About the Author
From Esotouric's true crime tours to her novel The Kept Girl, which stars the young Raymond Chandler, Kim is the premiere historian of L.A.'s lost lore.
Fiction, reality and the otherworldly co-exist in Herb Lester's universe. Since 2010, our illustrated maps have documented the distinctive in the world's great cities as well as charting locations associated with literature, rock'n'roll, the occult and wider pop culture. Increasingly untethered to the real world, our range of notepads from fictional hotels make ideal souvenirs from places no one can visit.
A native Angeleno, Paul has been making illustrations from a studio in Pasadena and tracking down Chandler locations for 35 years.