Akashic Noir – [Chicago Noir 02] – The Classics – Joe Meno (ed) (epub)
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Name: Akashic Noir – [Chicago Noir 02] – The Classics – Joe Meno (ed) (epub)
Format: epub
Size: 2.46 MB
Book:
Title: Chicago Noir (2015)
Author: Joe Meno (ed. by)
Language: English
Year: 2014
Subjects: Noir fiction; American, Short Stories & Anthologies
Publisher: Akashic Books
ISBN: 9782714494252
Total pages: 272 str.
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Although Los Angeles may be considered the most quintessentially "noir" American city, this volume reveals that pound-for-pound, Chicago has historically been able to stand up to any other metropolis in the noir arena.Classic reprints from: Harry Stephen Keeler, Sherwood Anderson, Max Allan Collins, Richard Wright, Nelson Algren, Fredric Brown, Patricia Highsmith, Barry Gifford, Stuart M. Kaminsky, Libby Fischer Hellmann, Sara Paretsky, Percy Spurlark Parker, Sandra Cisneros, Hugh Holton, and Stuart Dybek.
From the introduction by Joe Meno:
"More corrupt than New York, less glamorous than LA, Chicago has more murders per capita than any other city its size. With its sleek skyscrapers bisecting the fading sky like an unspoken threat, Chicago is the closest metropolis to the mythical city of shadows as first described in the work of Chandler, Hammett, and Cain. Only in Chicago do instituted color lines offer generation after generation of poverty and…
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