![]() ![]() The very announcement that Banville (or Black, as I shall also refer to him) would be stepping into Raymond Chandler’s shoes pre-empts the standard critique. It is thus irrelevant to discuss whether The Black-Eyed Blonde, the new “Philip Marlowe Novel” by Benjamin Black-the crime-writing pseudonym of the award-winning Irish novelist John Banville-is worthy of consideration as art. Something once dead, but with the prospect of resurrection. ![]() Publishers have become much like every other entertainment entity in that they search, desperately and continuously, for well-established formulas, work that is the same, but a little different. ![]()
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