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New Orleans noir / edited by Julie Smith.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Akashic noir series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--Louisiana--New Orleans.
- American fiction.
- Detective and mystery stories, American.
- Louisiana--New Orleans.
- Noir fiction, American.
- New Orleans (La.)--Fiction.
- New Orleans (La.).
- Genre:
- Detective and mystery stories, American.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 281 pages : map, portraits ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Akashic Books, [2007]
- Summary:
- New Orleans is a Third World country in itself, a Latin, African, European (and often amoral) culture trapped in a puritan nation. It's everyone's seamy underside, the city where respectable citizens go to get drunk, puke in the gutter, dance on tabletops, and go home with strangers, all without guilt. It's the metropolitan equivalent of eating standing up-if it happened in New Orleans, it doesn't count.
- The city was always the home of the lovable rogue, the poison magnolia, the bent politico, the sociopathic street thug, and, especially, the heartless con artist-but in post-Katrina times it struggles against ... well, the same old problems, just writ large and with a new breed of carpetbagger thrown in. Combine all that with a brilliant literary tradition and you have New Orleans Noir, a sparkling collection of tales exploring the city's wasted, gutted neighborhoods, its outwardly gleaming "sliver by the river," its still-raunchy French Quarter, and other hoods so far from the Quarter they might as well be on another continent. It also looks back into the past, from that recent innocent time known in contemporary New Orleans as "pre-K," to the mid-nineteenth century, the other time the city was mostly swampland.
- Contents:
- Part I Before the Levees Broke
- / Ted O'Brien What's the Score?: Mid-City 21
- / Patty Friedmann Two-Story Brick Houses: Uptown 31
- / Tim McLoughlin Scared Rabbit: Irish Channel 43
- / Olympia Vernon Schevoski: University District 51
- / David Fulmer Algiers: Algiers 56
- / Laura Lippman Pony Girl: Treme 68
- / Jervey Tervalon The Battling Priests of Corpus Christi: Seventh Ward 78
- / James Nolan Open Mike: French Quarter 88
- / Kalamu ya Salaam All I Could Do Was Cry: Lower Ninth Ward 110
- / Barbara Hambly There Shall Your Heart Be Also: The Swamp 129
- Part II Life in Atlantis
- / Maureen Tan Muddy Pond: Village de l'Est 149
- / Thomas Adcock Lawyers' Tongues: Gentilly 171
- / Jeri Cain Rossi And Hell Walked In: Bywater 188
- / Christine Wiltz Night Taxi: Lakeview 201
- / Greg Herren Annunciation Shotgun: Lower Garden District 224
- / Julie Smith Loot: Garden District 244
- / Ace Atkins Angola South: Loyola Avenue 264
- / Eric Overmyer Marigny Triangle: Faubourg Marigny 274.
- ISBN:
- 9781933354248
- 1933354240
- OCLC:
- 78989771
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