“It’s the kind of book where, when you read it, it turns the world to black and white for a half-hour afterward. It leaves you with the taste of rum and blood in your mouth. It hangs with you like a scar.”
— NPR
“A Marlowe we at once know, but have never met before. As much a meditation on aging and memory as it is a crime thriller.”
— Los Angeles Times
“A new case for Philip Marlowe and—have a smell from the barrel, all you gunsels and able grables —it crackles .”
— The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)
“Brilliant. Osborne and Chandler are a perfect match.”
— William Boyd, author of Any Human Heart
Only to Sleep
Year
2018
Pages
264
Praise
“It’s the kind of book where, when you read it, it turns the world to black and white for a half-hour afterward. It leaves you with the taste of rum and blood in your mouth. It hangs with you like a scar.”
— NPR
“A Marlowe we at once know, but have never met before. As much a meditation on aging and memory as it is a crime thriller.”
— Los Angeles Times
“A new case for Philip Marlowe and—have a smell from the barrel, all you gunsels and able grables —it crackles .”
— The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)
“Brilliant. Osborne and Chandler are a perfect match.”
— William Boyd, author of Any Human Heart
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