by Raymond Chandler · Edicions 62 · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788429737530
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«Adéu, nena» is the crime novel by Raymond Chandler, published by Edicions 62 in paperback (240 pages, in Catalan).
The search for a woman leads to a relentless critique of the police force and of corruption and crime among the privileged class. One of its members embodies the moral decay of bossism and the decline of a world based on greed and hypocrisy. The work had two famous film adaptations, in 1944 and 1975.
Second edition of 1994, number 146 of the Seleccions de la Cua de Palla collection, with a Catalan translation by Isabel Villaverde Acinas from the original English Farewell, My Lovely.
Will appeal to fans of crime fiction and to readers who prefer titles in Catalan.
Raymond Thornton Chandler was an American-British novelist and screenwriter. In 1932, at the age of forty-four, Chandler became a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the Great Depression. His first short story, "Blackmailers Don't Shoot", was published in 1933 in Black Mask, a pulp magazine. His first novel, The Big Sleep, was published in 1939. In addition to his short stories, Chandler published seven novels during his lifetime. All but Playback have been made into motion pictures, some more than once.
