The Goodbye Coast: A Philip Marlowe Novel Elif Batuman Caroline Kepnes weaves a tale

Caroline Kepnes weaves a tale that Booklist calls “the love child of Holden Caulfield and Patrick Bateman

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an unpredictable single mother-to-be who doesn’t seem very maternal: she smokes

but a very real experience

The Goodbye Coast: A Philip Marlowe Novel Elif Batuman Caroline Kepnes weaves a taleIn this colorful reinvention of a classic, Philip Marlowe finds himself tangled in two missing persons cases; Ide has chiseled off the rust while keeping the soul of one of American fictions icons (Dennis Lehane). The seductive and relentless figure of Raymond Chandlers 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