SOURCE: "The Longest Goodbye: Raymond Chandler and the Poetry of Alcohol," in Armchair Detective, 18, 4, Fall, 1985, pp. 392-406.
In the following essay. Tate studies the symbolic and autobiographical role of alcohol in Raymond Chandler's novel The Long Goodbye.
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