Additional info
- Author
- Ross MacDonald
- Title
- The Chill
- Translator
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics, 2012
- Info
- pp. 352 - £8.99
Those Little Bourgeois
A guncotton thriller, with a gallery of cleverly staged characters and a rhythm that manages to captivate from beginning to end despite a not abundant action. Ross Macdonald is a true master in building believable and interesting characters and dialogues, intriguing situations and exciting mysteries, and he doesn’t deny himself in this “The Chill”, in which the middle class is portrayed as distracted and closed in its own world, unable to see the reality beyond its little values and interests, and for which human life is worth only to the extent that it is useful or hinders to its own purposes. A must-read.
Translation by Anna Anzani (edited by Chiara Canova and Robert Mardle)
