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Highlights
- The Underground Man is a detective novel of merciless suspense and tragic depth, with an unfaltering insight into the moral ambiguities at the heart of California's version of the American dream.
- About the Author: Ross Macdonald's real name was Kenneth Millar.
- 288 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Action & Adventure
- Series Name: Lew Archer
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About the Book
As a mysterious fire rages through an affluent community in Southern California, Lew Archer tracks a missing--and possibly kidnapped--child and uncovers and entire secret history of wayward parents, wounded offspring, and murder. Along with its merciless suspense, The Underground Man possesses a moral vision as complex as that of a classic Greek tragedy.Book Synopsis
The Underground Man is a detective novel of merciless suspense and tragic depth, with an unfaltering insight into the moral ambiguities at the heart of California's version of the American dream. "There are certain books that bide their time, like plants, waiting decades to flower.... If a copy of The Underground Man, a novel from 1971, by Ross Macdonald, has been sitting on your shelf for ages, unread and barely noticed, try opening it now. Suddenly it's a book in full bloom." --Anthony Lane, The New YorkerAs a mysterious fire rages through the hills above a privileged town in Southern California, Lew Archer tracks a missing child who may be the pawn in a marital struggle or the victim of a bizarre kidnapping. What he uncovers amid the ashes is murder--and a trail of motives as combustible as gasoline. If any writer can be said to have inherited the mantle of Dashiell Hammet and Raymond Chandler, it was Ross Macdonald. Between the late 1940s and his death in 1983, he gave the American crime novel a psychological depth and moral complexity that his predecessors had only hinted at. And in the character of Lew Archer, Macdonald redefined the private eye as a roving conscience who walks the treacherous frontier between criminal guilt and human sin.
Review Quotes
"There are certain books that bide their time, like plants, waiting decades to flower.... If a copy of The Underground Man, a novel from 1971, by Ross Macdonald, has been sitting on your shelf for ages, unread and barely noticed, try opening it now. Suddenly it's a book in full bloom." --Anthony Lane, The New Yorker "A more serious and complex writer than Chandler and Hammett ever were."
--Eudora Welty "Ross Macdonald is an important American novelist!"
--San Francisco Chronicle "I should like to venture that Ross Macdonald is a better novelist than either...Dashiell Hammett or Raymond Chandler."
--Anthony Boucher, The New York Times Book Review
About the Author
Ross Macdonald's real name was Kenneth Millar. Born near San Francisco in 1915 and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, Millar returned to the U.S. as a young man and published his first novel in 1944. He served as the President of the Mystery Writers of America and was awarded their Grand Master Award, as well as the Mystery Writers of Great Britain's Silver Dagger Award. He died in 1983.Dimensions (Overall): 7.94 Inches (H) x 5.13 Inches (W) x .63 Inches (D)
Weight: .49 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Series Title: Lew Archer
Sub-Genre: Action & Adventure
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Number of Pages: 288
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Format: Paperback
Author: Ross MacDonald
Language: English
Street Date: November 26, 1996
TCIN: 92586062
UPC: 9780679768081
Item Number (DPCI): 247-04-6925
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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Estimated ship weight: 0.49 pounds
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