{"id":28543,"date":"2021-11-21T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-21T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=28543"},"modified":"2021-11-20T20:13:06","modified_gmt":"2021-11-21T00:13:06","slug":"phillip-marlowe-returns-in-the-goodbye-coast-by-joe-ide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=28543","title":{"rendered":"Phillip Marlowe Returns in THE GOODBYE COAST by Joe Ide!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’m a Phillip Marlowe fan.  I’ve read the original novels by Raymond Chandler.  I read Robert B. Parker’s Marlowe novels.  In movies, I’ve seen Marlowe played by Humphrey Bogart, Dick Powell, Robert Montgomery, James Garner, Elliott Gould and Robert Mitchum.<\/p>\n

What I haven’t read is the Phillip Marlowe novel The<\/span> Goodbye<\/span> Coast<\/span> by Joe Ide. Of course it won’t be released until February 1, 2022.  Here’s the synopsis…<\/p>\n

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Raymond Chandler’s iconic detective, Philip Marlowe, gets a dramatic and colorful reinvention at the hands of award-winning novelist Joe Ide<\/p>\n

The seductive and relentless figure of Raymond Chandler\u2019s detective, Philip Marlowe, is vividly re-imagined in present-day Los Angeles. Here is a city of scheming Malibu actresses, ruthless gang members, virulent inequality, and washed-out police. Acclaimed and award-winning novelist Joe Ide imagines a Marlowe very much of our time: he\u2019s a quiet, lonely, and remarkably capable and confident private detective, though he lives beneath the shadow of his father, a once-decorated LAPD homicide detective, famous throughout the city, who\u2019s given in to drink after the death of Marlowe\u2019s mother.<\/p>\n

Marlowe, against his better judgement, accepts two missing person cases, the first a daughter of a faded, tyrannical Hollywood starlet, and the second, a British child stolen from his mother by his father. At the center of The<\/span> Goodbye<\/span> Coast<\/span> is Marlowe\u2019s troubled and confounding relationship with his father, a son who despises yet respects his dad, and a dad who\u2019s unable to hide his bitter disappointment with his grown boy.<\/p>\n

Steeped in the richly detailed ethnic neighborhoods of modern LA, Ide\u2019s The<\/span> Goodbye<\/span> Coast<\/span> is a bold recreation that is viciously funny, ingeniously plotted, and surprisingly tender.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I like the sound of The Goodbye Coast<\/a>.  I even like the fact that they’re putting Marlowe in current times, which surprises me.  Joe Ide is a writer of note.  I think I’m going to have to give this one a go.  <\/p>\n\n\n

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