| Ross Macdonald is one of America s best-selling mys- tery writers, and one of the most lit- erate. He uses his wry private eye, Lew Archer, to tie together a popular mythology through which he explores the ills of the modern world with caus- tic compassion. All this within the demanding limits of detective fiction. How has he done it? This book takes the reader on an exploration in depth of Macdonald country, where Catifornia symbolizes man s inabilty to cope with himself and the world. All of Macdonald s novels aretreated, with emphasis on his majorworks, including The Galton Case, TheZebra-Striped Hearse, The Under-ground Man, and The Blue Hammer.A biographical study of the writer--under his own name, Kenneth Millar--sets the stage. Then follows anadroit critical assessment of his workand the influences on him, with anextensive analysis of his themes andmotifs, especially in Freudian patternsof behavior. Jerry Speir sets a livelytone as he traces, with a critic s eye, |
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