The Big Sleep The Big Sleep The Big Sleep (1939) is a hardboiled crime novel by Raymond Chandler, the first to feature the detective Philip Marlowe. It has been adapted for film twice, in 1946 and again in 1978. The story is set in Los Angeles. The story is noted for its complexity, with characters double-crossing one another and secrets being exposed throughout the narrative. The title is a euphemism for death; it refers to a rumination about "sleeping the big sleep" in the final pages of the book. In 1999, the book was voted 96th of "Le Monde"s "100 Books of the
The Glitch in Sleep of humor, seeming to draw a novel from David Wiesner's Sector 7" "The Glitch in Sleep" was nominated for the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award, a Vermont children’s choice award. It was also chosen as one on Amazon's Best Books of 2007 along with nine other books and was also named as an Autumn Book Sense Children's pick in 2007. "The Glitch in Sleep" was also in Publishers Weekly "BEA 2007: Fall Titles to Watch" list. Film rights to the first book have been acquired by Twentieth Century Fox, but no release has been yet planned. The movie will be directed