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Chicago noir : the classics / edited by Joe Meno.
Akashic, c2015.
Call #:
FICTION
CHI
Subjects
Chicago (Ill.) --
Fiction
.
Series
Akashic noir series.
ISBN:
9781617753770
1617753777
9781617752940 (trade pbk.)
Description:
249 p. : map ; 21 cm
Contents:
30 seconds of darkness / Harry Stephen Keeler -- Brothers / Sherwood Anderson -- Kaddish for the kid / Max Allan Collins -- The man who went to Chicago (excerpt) / Richard Wright -- He swung and he missed / Nelson Algren -- I'll cut your throat again, Kathleen / Fredric Brown -- The price of salt (excerpt) / Patricia Highsmith -- The starving dogs of Little Croatia / Barry Gifford -- Blue note / Stuart M. Kaminsky -- The whole world is watching / Libby Fischer Hellmann -- Skin Deep / Sara Paretsky -- Death and the point spread / Percy Spurlark Parker -- One holy night / Sandra Cisneros -- The thirtieth amendment / Hugh Holton -- We didn't / Stuart Dybek.
Summary:
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.
Genre:
Noir
fiction
.
Short stories.
Other authors:
Meno, Joe.
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Alderney Gate Public Library
Adult Fiction
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