The Big Sleep Condition:Like New author of Thinking Hats &

author of Thinking Hats & Colored Turbans

My father once told me it meant “to know”

Imbued on every page with Frank McCourt's astounding humor and compassion

As Herz ponders proposing marriage to an old friend

the world drastically resets

The Big Sleep Condition:Like New author of Thinking Hats &Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. He is the hero; he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. This is the Code of the Private Eye as defined by Raymond Chandler in his 1944 essay The Simple Act of Murder. Such a man was Philip Marlowe, private eye, an educated, heroic, streetwise, rugged individualist and the hero of Chandler's first novel, The