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Manhattan Noir

Manhattan Noir

Lawrence Block
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From the introduction by Lawrence Block:
Readers of Brooklyn Noir will recall that its contents were labeled by neighborhood - Bay Ridge, Canarsie, Greenpoint, etc. We have chosen the same principle here, and the book's contents do a good job of covering the island, from C.J. Sullivan's Inwood and John Lutz's Upper West Side, to Justin Scott's Chelsea and Carol Lea Benjamin's Greenwich Village. The range in mood and literary style is at least as great; noir can be funny, it can stretch to include magic realism, it can be ample or stark, told in the past or present tense, and in the first or third person. I wouldn't presume to define noir - if we could define it, we wouldn't need to use a French word for it -- but it seems to be that it's more a way of looking at the world than what one sees.

The good Samaritan / Charles Ardai --
The last supper / Carol Lea Benjamin --
If you can't stand the heat / Lawrence Block --
Rain / Thomas H. Cook --
A nice place to visit / Jeffrey Deaver --
The next best thing / Jim Fusilli --
Take the man's pay / Robert Knightly --
The laundry room / John Lutz --
Freddie Prinze is my guardian angel / Liz Martínez --
The organ grinder / Maan Meyers --
Why do they have to hit? / Martin Meyers --
Building / S.J. Rozan --
The most beautiful apartment in New York / Justin Scott --
The last round / C.J. Sullivan --
Crying with Audrey Hepburn / Xu Xi
Pages
257
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Akashic Books
Release
April 01, 2006
ISBN
1888451955
ISBN 13
9781888451955

Manhattan Noir

Lawrence Block
3.5/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
From the introduction by Lawrence Block:
Readers of Brooklyn Noir will recall that its contents were labeled by neighborhood - Bay Ridge, Canarsie, Greenpoint, etc. We have chosen the same principle here, and the book's contents do a good job of covering the island, from C.J. Sullivan's Inwood and John Lutz's Upper West Side, to Justin Scott's Chelsea and Carol Lea Benjamin's Greenwich Village. The range in mood and literary style is at least as great; noir can be funny, it can stretch to include magic realism, it can be ample or stark, told in the past or present tense, and in the first or third person. I wouldn't presume to define noir - if we could define it, we wouldn't need to use a French word for it -- but it seems to be that it's more a way of looking at the world than what one sees.

The good Samaritan / Charles Ardai --
The last supper / Carol Lea Benjamin --
If you can't stand the heat / Lawrence Block --
Rain / Thomas H. Cook --
A nice place to visit / Jeffrey Deaver --
The next best thing / Jim Fusilli --
Take the man's pay / Robert Knightly --
The laundry room / John Lutz --
Freddie Prinze is my guardian angel / Liz Martínez --
The organ grinder / Maan Meyers --
Why do they have to hit? / Martin Meyers --
Building / S.J. Rozan --
The most beautiful apartment in New York / Justin Scott --
The last round / C.J. Sullivan --
Crying with Audrey Hepburn / Xu Xi
Pages
257
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Akashic Books
Release
April 01, 2006
ISBN
1888451955
ISBN 13
9781888451955

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