Writing 'The Long Goodbye'

[David Payne]

On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, John Carvill (johncarvill at gmail.com) wrote:

> "...over time critics on both sides of the Atlantic came to recognize
> The Long Goodbye as a novel that truly broke through the boundaries of
> genre fiction into literature, and many echoed the evaluation of the
> novel as Chandler’s best. Novelist and critic Anthony Burgess included
> it as his only selection for 1954 in his list, "99 Novels: The Best in
> English Since 1939." This is a list populated with the likes of
> Finnegan’s Wake, Nineteen Eighty-Four, The Catcher in the Rye and
> Catch-22, with only a smattering of other entries that might be
> categorized as genre."
>
> http://www.markcoggins.com/essays/WTLG.html
>

Ian Fleming's "Goldfinger" is also on the list: http://www.interleaves.org/~rteeter/grt99.html
 
(So is GR.)
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