Cutting edge : new stories of mystery and crime by women writers / edited by Joyce Carol Oates ; [cover and interior artwork by Laurel Hausler]

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- editor, author.

Hausler, Laurel, 1977- illustrator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Noir fiction.

Noir poetry.

Detective and mystery stories.

Detective and mystery stories--Women authors.

Genre:

Detective and mystery fiction.

Short stories.

Mystery fiction.

Physical Description:

234 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Brooklyn, New York : Akashic Books, [2019]

Summary:

Joyce Carol Oates pulls out all the stops in this chilling female-centric noir collection featuring brand-new writing from Margaret Atwood, Aimee Bender, Edwidge Danticat, and more.

The particular strength of the female noir vision isn't a recognizable style but rather a defiantly female, indeed feminist, perspective. In this collection of stories and poems, bad men are not always the victims but they get their due often enough to satisfy readers who are tired of the gendered status quo. From surreal to erotically playful, from deadpan to dark fairy-tale, they are as stylistically diverse as their authors. -- adapted from back cover and front flap

Contents:

Part I: Their bodies, our selves. One of these nights / Livia Llewellyn

A history of the world in five objects / S.J. Rozan

The hunger / Lisa Lim

Too many lunatics / Lucy Taylor

Please translate / Edwidge Danticat

Part II: A doom of one's own. The boy without a bike / Jennifer Morales

An early specimen / Elizabeth McCracken

OBF, Inc. / Bernice L. McFadden

Firetown / Aimee Bender

Thief / Steph Cha

Part III: Manslaying. Impala / S.A. Solomon

Mothers, we dream / Cassandra Khaw

Il Grifone / Valerie Martin

Miss Martin / Sheila Kohler

Six poems / Margaret Atwood

Assassin / Joyce Carol Oates.

ISBN:

9781617757617

1617757616

1617757624

9781617757624

OCLC:

1091587243