Ross Macdonald: Four Later Novels (LOA #295): Black Money /

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Ross Macdonald: Four Later Novels (LOA #295): Black Money / The Instant Enemy / The Goodbye Look / The Underground Man (Library of America Ross Macdonald Edition)

From his vantage point in Southern Californiaâ€”andÂ through the eyes of his great creation, private eye LewÂ Archerâ€”Ross Macdonald (the pseudonymn of Kenneth Millar)Â fashions a haunting, startlinglyÂ immediate vision of modern America: a swirling mixÂ of sexual exploitation, intergenerational conflict, racialÂ animosities, and ecological disaster.

In Black Money, Archer is hired to find a wealthy manÂ gone missing and soon finds himself investigating aÂ suspicious seven-year-old suicide. The case becomes aÂ peeling away of many levels of deception, delusion,Â and false identity. Exploring themes of immigrationÂ and border-crossing central to Macdonaldâ€™s own life,Â Black Money also pays homage to The Great Gatsby,Â one of his favorite books.

The Instant Enemy begins with Archerâ€™s search for aÂ runaway teenage daughter and her troubled, possiblyÂ murderous boyfriend, a search that uncovers aÂ morass of hidden wrongs. In an emotionally intenseÂ work that reflects the chaos and conflicts of hisÂ familyâ€™s troubled past, Macdonald gives indelibleÂ and ultimately tragic expression to the generationalÂ conflict and drug culture of the DJHCs.

An investigation into â€œa rather peculiar burglaryâ€ takesÂ a drastic turn with the discovery of a body in an abandonedÂ car on a beach in The Goodbye Look, the bookÂ that sealed Macdonaldâ€™s reputation as the preeminentÂ crime novelist of his time. Tracking a stolen heirloom,Â Archer follows a trail of violence that lays bare aÂ miasma of buried secrets and unforgotten traumas.

â€œIn our day,â€ wrote Eudora Welty, â€œit is for such aÂ novel as The Underground Man that the detectiveÂ form exists.â€ A raging wildfire stirred by the SantaÂ Ana winds serves as prelude to a chain of kidnappingÂ and murder. Youthful rebellion is pitted against theÂ hypocrisies of the older generation in a novel, inÂ Weltyâ€™s estimation, â€œnot only exhilaratingly wellÂ done; it is also very moving.â€
Country USA
Brand Library of America
Manufacturer Library of America
Binding Hardcover
Color Black
ReleaseDate 2017-07-11
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781598535341

Country	USA
Brand	Library of America
Manufacturer	Library of America
Binding	Hardcover
Color	Black
ReleaseDate	2017-07-11
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781598535341

Ross Macdonald: Four Later Novels (LOA #295): Black Money / The Instant Enemy / The Goodbye Look / The Underground Man (Library of America Ross Macdonald Edition)

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