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New Jersey noir / edited by Joyce Carol Oates.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Fiction Mystery New
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LIBRA - Rare PS548.N5 N34 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Akashic noir series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Detective and mystery stories, American.
- New Jersey--Fiction.
- New Jersey.
- Noir fiction, American.
- Genre:
- Detective and mystery stories, American.
- Fiction.
- Noir fiction.
- Mystery fiction.
- Short stories.
- Penn Provenance:
- Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- (autograph) (LIBRA Rare PS548.N5 N34 2011)
- Gutmann, Amy (donor) (inscription) (LIBRA Rare PS548.N5 N34 2011)
- Physical Description:
- 274 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Akashic Books, c2011.
- Summary:
- Sitting between the great cities of New York and Philadelphia, New Jersey has been by tradition a heavily "organized" Mafia state, as it was at one time a northern outpost of the Ku Klux Klan, with a concentration of members in Trenton, Camden, Monmouth County, and South Jersey ... In such ways, the most civilized and "decent" among us find that we are complicit with the most brutal murderers. We enter into literally unspeakable alliances--of which we dare not speak except through the obliquities and indirections of fiction, poetry, and visual art of the sort gathered here in New Jersey Noir.
- Contents:
- Part I, Inner-city New Jersey: Live for today / S.A. Solomon ; Soul anatomy / Lou Manfredo ; New day Newark / S.J. Rozan ; Newark black: 1940-1954 / C.K. Williams
- Part II, Romance & nostalgia: Lola / Jonathan Santlofer ; The enigma of Grover's Mill / Bradford Morrow ; Broken glass / Gerald Stern ; Wunderlich / Sheila Kohler ; Atlantis / Richard Burgin ; August: feeding frenzy / Alicia Ostriker ; Part III, Commerce & retribution: A bag for Nicholas / Hirsh Sawhney ; Glass eels / Jeffrey Ford ; Meadowlands spike / Barry N. Malzberg & Bill Pronzini ; Kettle run / Robert Arellano ; Noir, NJ / Paul Muldoon
- Part IV, Garden State underground: Too near real / Jonathan Safran Foer ; Excavation / Edmund White & Michael Carroll ; Long branch underground / Robert Pinsky ; Run kiss daddy / Joyce Carol Oates.
- Notes:
- Stories and poems.
- Local Notes:
- LIBRA Rare PS548.N5 N34 2011 presented to the Penn Libraries by Amy Gutmann. Copy inscibed by the author to Amy Gutmann on 17 November 2011; card from the author to Amy Gutmann laid in.
- ISBN:
- 1617750263
- 9781617750342
- 1617750344
- 9781617750267
- OCLC:
- 709680949
- Publisher Number:
- 99946439609
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