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New Orleans Noir: The Classics
Paperback
Series: Akashic Noir
Mystery & ThrillerFiction Anthologies
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ISBN13: 9781617753848
Publisher: Akashic Books, Ltd.
Published: Mar 1 2016
Pages: 300
Weight: 0.70
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.20 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
[An] irresistible sequel to Smith's New Orleans Noir. . . . Anyone who knows New Orleans even slightly will relish revisiting the city in story after story. For anyone who has never been to New Orleans, this is a great introduction to its neighborhoods and history. --Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
Ten years after the publication of the original New Orleans Noir, Akashic's 'Noir' series returns with a follow-up. . . . Each entry is strong, but the collection is worth reading alone for Poppy Z. Brite's Mussolini and the Axeman's Jazz, a delirious and brutal ghost story. . . . Strongly recommended for fans of the Akashic anthologies and Hard Case Crime mysteries and lovers of New Orleans fiction. Devotees of Southern gothic fiction (e.g., the works of Flannery O'Connor and Tom Franklin.) will also find much to enjoy. --Library Journal, Starred Review
Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each volume comprises stories set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city.
Classic reprints from: James Lee Burke, Armand Lanusse, Grace King, Kate Chopin, O. Henry, Eudora Welty, Tennessee Williams, Shirley Ann Grau, John William Corrington, Tom Dent, Ellen Gilchrist, Valerie Martin, O'Neil De Noux, John Biguenet, Poppy Z. Brite, Nevada Barr, Ace Atkins, and Maurice Carlos Ruffin.
From the introduction by Julie Smith:
A glittering constellation of writers has passed through New Orleans--including Mark Twain, Sherwood Anderson, O. Henry, and even Walt Whitman, to name some of the not-so-usual suspects. Then there are the ones whose sojourns here are better known, the ones on whom we pride ourselves, such as Tennessee Williams, William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Ellen Gilchrist, and James Lee Burke.
It was an anthologist's feast--just about everybody who came to New Orleans wrote about it. But there were surprises as well . . .
If you're from New Orleans, the neighborhood theme will resonate like Tibetan temple bells. And yet, surely every city has similar hoods, similar behavior patterns, similar travails--and has had them forever. 'Indeed, ' wrote Voltaire, 'history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.'
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