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Chicago Noir
Paperback
Series: Akashic Noir
Mystery & ThrillerFiction Anthologies
Publisher Price: $20.95
ISBN13: 9781888451894
Publisher: Akashic Books, Ltd.
Published: Sep 1 2005
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
The population of Chicago Noir is as diverse as any crowd at the lakefront fireworks show . . . As representative of Chicago as Oprah, MJ and a Gold Coast hot dog. --Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Noir asks us to consider whether Chicago is, specifically, a noir city and, more significantly, how noir plays out in the current landscape . . . Its stories push us to think about how noir might still be relevant beyond a bad-ass sort of nostalgia. --American Book Review
Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each story is set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book.
Brand-new stories by: Neal Pollack, Achy Obejas, Alexai Galaviz-Budziszewski, Adam Langer, Joe Meno, Peter Orner, Kevin Guilfoile, Bayo Ojikutu, Jeffery Renard Allen, Luciano Guerriero, Claire Zulkey, Andrew Ervin, M.K. Meyers, Todd Dills, C.J. Sullivan, Daniel Buckman, Amy Sayre-Roberts, and Jim Arndorfer.
From the introduction by Neal Pollack:
Chicago's literature has rarely concerned itself with the vagaries of the upper and upper-middle classes. The city's best writers--Nelson Algren, James Farrell, Studs Terkel, Richard Wright, and so on--have traditionally used working people as their palette. They accurately captured the rough streets and random cruelty of urban life, but for people living in Chicago, their stories meant something more. They shaped the way Chicagoans think about themselves, and about Chicago.
The excellent new stories I've collected in this volume try to fill the gap between how the world sees Chicago and how Chicago sees itself. Many of the stories take nostalgia as a theme. Some have a yellowing snapshot feel, as though they're trying to archive a city that's just about gone. Adam Langer looks wistfully back at neighborhood life in the 1970s. C.J. Sullivan's protagonist, long past whatever sad prime he once had, also remembers the '70s as a golden age. Peter Orner drifts even further back, to the 1950s, while inhabiting the mind of one of Chicago's most sinister criminals, and Claire Zulkey visits the city 100 years ago, when people were strange and their crimes even stranger. Now that was a city worth writing about.
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