The Long Embrace: Raymond Chandler and the Woman He Loved
The Long Embrace: Raymond Chandler and the Woman He Loved
WBEZ brings you fact-based news and information.
Sign up for our newsletters
to stay up to date on the stories that matter.
Before Raymond Chandler died in 1959, he burned all correspondence with his wife Cissy, who was eighteen years his senior. Los Angeles-based novelist Judith Freeman pieces together his unconventional marriage in an attempt to learn more about this mysterious man of letters. The result is the critically-acclaimed The Long Embrace, named one of the best books of 2007 by Salon.com, Newsweek and The Los Angeles Times.
This is a One Book, One Chicago event.
Recorded Monday, April 14, 2008 at Chicago Public Library.