Miami Noir (Akashic Noir)

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Brand-new stories by: James W. Hall, Barbara Parker, John Dufresne, Paul Levine, Carolina Garcia-Aguilera, Tom Corcoran, Vicki Hendricks, Preston L. Allen, Lynne Barrett, and othersFrom 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 . . . 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."

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These sixteen stories set in Miami cover a diverse demographic, from long-term Cuban émigrés to Haitian boat people and psychopathic rednecks. In 'Ride along', a college professor with an interest in crime writing goes slumming with a thug called Jumpy - with unexpected results. In 'Boozanne, lemme be' a 4'10" protagonist lives undetected under a house until he connects with Boozanne and dives still further into ruin.

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Other Editions

• Miami Noir (Akashic Noir)PaperbackAkashic Books2006-11-01
• Miami NoirElectronic resourceakashic books2009-01-01