MIAMI NOIR

Standiford, Les (editor) (James W. Hall; Christine Kling; George Tucker; Kevin Allen; Anthony Dale Gagliano; Tom Corcoran; Paul Levine; David Beaty; John Dufresne; Carolina Garcia-Aguilera; John Bond; Preston Allen; Lynne Barrett; Barbara Parker)

ISBN 10: 1933354135 / ISBN 13: 9781933354132

Published by Akashic Books, New York, 2006

About this Item

Signed on the title page by Les Standiford; signed at the beginning of his story by Preston Allen; and signed at the beginning of her story by Lynne Barrett. Edge and corner wear with an uncreased spine and some de-lamination and general wear; aside from the editor's and the authors' signatures, no interior marking. This story collection contains: Introduction: Trouble and Paradise; Ride Along by James W. Hall; Dead Storage by Christine Kling; Silence of the Stone Age by George Tucker; Sawyers by Kevin Allen; Blown Away by Anthony Dale Gagliano; One Man's Ceiling by Tom Corcoran; Solomon and Lord Drop Anchor by Paul Levine; The Last of Lord Jitters by David Beaty; The Timing of Unfelt Smiles by John Dufresne; Boozanne, Lemme Be by Vicki Hendricks; The Recipe by Carolina Garcia-Aguilera; T-bird by John Bond; Swap Out by Preston Allen; The Noir Boudoir by Lynne Barrett; Machete by Barbara Parker; and The Swimmers by Jeffrey Wehr. Size: 8vo.

Seller Inventory # 233476

Bibliographic Details

• Title: MIAMI NOIR
• Publisher: Akashic Books, New York
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1933354135
• ISBN 13: 9781933354132
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good-
• Signed: Signed by Editor and Authors
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Signed Books
  • Mystery and Detective

About this title

Synopsis

"For such a sun-stoked place. Miami sure is shady. Shadowy, too. Even at highest noon. Maybe it's the heat. Maybe it's the humidity. And maybe, just maybe, it's our destiny . . . With echoes of Charles Willeford's Hoke Mosely series, the Miami books of Elmore Leonard, the quirk of Carl Hiaasen, who never met a shady character he didn't wanna write, and Edna Buchanan, who seems to know all the shadows, this batch of dirty deep South Florida fiction might just send you packing . . . your own heat." --Sun Post

Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each story is set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book.

Brand-new stories by: James W. Hall, Barbara Parker, John Dufresne, Paul Levine, Carolina Garcia-Aguilera, Tom Corcoran, Christine Kling, George Tucker, Kevin Allen, Anthony Dale Gagliano, David Beaty, Vicki Hendricks, John Bond, Preston L. Allen, Lynne Barrett, Jeffrey Wehr.

From the introduction by Les Standiford:

"The truth is that Miami, though naturally lovely, is a frontier town, perched on the border between the known and the rarely before experienced. The poet Richard Hugo once said that the natural place for the writer was on the edge, and 'edge' might well be the definitive word when it comes to this city . . . We are not only on the edge of the continent, we are to this country what New York was in Ellis Island's heyday, what the West Coast was in the middle of the twentieth century. This is where the new arrivals debark these days, and it is no mistake that during the last decade of the last century, commentators as diverse as Joan Didion, David Rieff, and T.D. Allman devoted entire volumes to Miami's role as the harbinger for America's future . . . But for now, the novel of crime and punishment is the perfect vehicle to convey the spirit and the timbre of this brawling place to a wider world."

About the Author

LES STANDIFORD, who edited 2006's Miami Noir, is the author of twenty-four books and novels, including the award-winning John Deal thriller series and the works of narrative nonfiction Last Train to Paradise, the One Read choice of a dozen public library systems, and Bringing Adam Home, a Wall Street Journal number one true crime bestseller. He is director of the MFA program in creative writing at Florida International University in Miami. His latest work is Miami Noir: The Classics.