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2010 Raymond Chandler Award to Michael Connelly |
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| 10/12/2010 |
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His Los Angeles is an inextricable labyrinth of misery and nobility, a house of mirrors inhabited by lonely souls who, for having too long stared at the bottom of the abyss, risk remaining prisoners of a “garden of delights” full of dark elements that depict the world’s chaos.
His characters – from police officer Harry Bosch to federal agent Terry McCaleb, from lawyer Mickey Haller to crime reporter Jack McEvoy – all share the romantic cynicism and nostalgic grace of chandler’s heroes. They live in the present but know they have survived their past, and defend its honor, dignity and dreams.
His is like bay city blues writing: efficient and detached like good reporter, impassioned like a thoroughbred writer. It pulsates with the rhythm of life and captures all of its contradictions because, as he himself says, a good detective story shouldn’t show a detective working on a case, but how that case works on the detective.
The 2010 Raymond Chandler award goes to Michael Joseph Connelly, an impassioned reader of Chandler, and a writer worthy of his legacy. |
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