Sunday Story Ratings #32: I'll Be Waiting
I'll Be Waiting by Raymond Chandler
Originally published 1939 in the Saturday Evening Post; this edition 1995
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Collected in: Hard-Boiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories (ed. Bill Pronzini & Jack Adrian)
PG
(L, D, V)
Minor Coarse Language (G)
Mild Drug Use (PG) {Tobacco}
Violence (PG) {Off-screen, allusive, but emotional}
Representations
Gender:
One non-viewpoint woman, various men.
Sex:
A hetero romance in backstory partially driving the present, otherwise naught.
Race & Ethnicity:
Hunky used as term for person of Polish descent, applied to protagonist. A throwaway character identified as Mexican. Elsewise no indication other than white USAian.
Disability, Physical Diversity and Health:
No mention.
Notes
Raymond Chandler seems to get credited as one of the more literary crime writers of his era, and he reads like he knew it.
I was looking forward to this story on the basis of Chandler's reputation as one of THE crime writers of the early 20th Century. Not disappointed.