When someone asks, "Which three books have meant the most to you?" I can answer without having to think: THE GREAT GATSBY, Dostoevsky's THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV, and Raymond Chandler's THE LONG GOODBYE. All three have been indispensable to me (both as a reader and as a writer)…
- Haruki Murakami（村上村树）
The Long Goodbye is a novel by Raymond Chandler, published in 1953, his sixth novel featuring the private investigator Philip Marlowe. Some critics consider it inferior to The Big Sleep or Farewell, My Lovely, but others rank it as the best of his work. Chandler, in a letter to a friend, called the novel "my best book".
The novel is notable for using hard-boiled detective fiction as a vehicle for social criticism and for including autobiographical elements from Chandler's life. It was dramatized for television in 1954 for the anthology series Climax!. In 1955, the novel received the Edgar Award for Best Novel. In 1973, Robert Altman filmed an adaptation set in contemporary Los Angeles, with Elliott Gould as Marlowe. An adaptation of the novel was broadcast by BBC Radio 4 on 16 January 1978.
《漫长的告别》美国"硬汉派"侦探大师雷蒙·钱德勒代表作品，是作者的第六部长篇小说，荣获爱伦·坡小说奖，入选美国推理协会"史上百部推理小说"。日本作家村上春树曾经反复阅读并极为推崇的作品。
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雷蒙·钱德勒（1888-1959），美国著名作家。一生共出版七部长篇小说，代表作《漫长的告别》获1955年爱伦·坡小说奖，位列1995年美国推理协会评选的"史上百部推理小说"第13名。钱德勒以菲利普·马洛为主人翁的侦探系列作品，半世纪以来早已突破一般类型小说的局限，跻身经典文学的殿堂，其塑造的侦探菲利普·马洛被评为极富魅力的男人。