Boston Noir 2 by Dennis Lehane

Boston Noir 2 by Dennis Lehane

"The contributor list is delightfully quirky . . . The collection's unifying element is a deep understanding of Boston's Byzantine worlds of race and class--as seen terrifyingly in Andre Dubus's tale of mill town resentment and pampered preppies." --Boston Globe

Featuring stories by: Linda Barnes, Jason Brown, Andre Dubus, Chuck Hogan, George Harrar, George V. Higgins, Dennis Lehane, Joyce Carol Oates, Robert B. Parker, David Ryan, Kenneth Abel, Barbara Neely, Hannah Tinti, and David Foster Wallace.

From the introduction by Jaime Clarke, Mary Cotton, & Dennis Lehane:

 "What is noir and what is not inhabits a gray area. Its definition is continually expanding from the previous generation's agreed-upon notion that noir involves men in fedoras smoking cigarettes on street corners. Noir alludes to crime, sure, but it also evokes bleak elements, danger, tragedy, sleaze, all of which is best represented by its root French definition: black. We used this idea as our guide for this sequel to the best-selling Boston Noir anthology . . .

"The commonwealth is an endless source of fascinating landscapes: the autumnal light spreading across the Charles River; the ice floes in the wintry Boston Harbor; a spring air tantalizing leaves in Harvard Yard; the salty taste of summer as sunbathers peer into the horizon, shielding their eyes from the glare, squinting into the middle distance. Beyond the postcard fabric, though, lies a community populated by broken families, criminal minds, voyeurs, and outsiders. They look like you and me. These are their stories."

Clarke, Jaime: - Jaime Clarke is a graduate of the University of Arizona and holds an MFA from Bennington College. He is the author of the novels VERNON DOWNS/WORLD GON WATER/GARDEN LAKES: THE COMPLETE CHARLIE MARTENS TRILOGY (Roundabout Press, 2021), MINOR CHARACTERS: STORIES (Roundabout Press, 2021), We're So Famous, Vernon Downs, World Gone Water, and Garden Lakes; editor of the anthologies Don't You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes, Conversations with Jonathan Lethem, and Talk Show: On the Couch with Contemporary Writers; and co-editor of the anthologies No Near Exit: Writers Select Their Favorite Work from Post Road Magazine (with Mary Cotton) and Boston Noir 2: The Classics (with Dennis Lehane and Mary Cotton). He is a founding editor of the literary magazine Post Road, now published at Boston College, and co-owner, with his wife, of Newtonville Books, an independent bookstore in Boston.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9781617751370
ISBN 10	1617751375
Title	Boston Noir 2
Author	Dennis Lehane
Series	Akashic Noir
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Akashic Books,U.S.
Year published	2012-11-06
Number of pages	250
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.