The Long Goodbye Book Review. The downside of the long goodbye is that in the midst of all that, chandler loses the story several times. Philip marlowe's ave atque vale runs to about 500 pages, through the sanguine incidents which attend his casual involvement with terry lennox, a rich woman's kept poodle whom he picks up in a bar.
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The long goodbye is a novel by raymond chandler, published in 1953, his sixth novel featuring the private investigator philip marlowe.
Information on o’rourke is here. Chandler, in a letter to. The long goodbye by raymond chandler, book of a lifetime the long goodbye, if not the best or most technically accomplished of the marlowe novels, is. 4.16 · rating details · 64 ratings · 12 reviews.