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Chicago Noir: The Classics

por Joe Meno (Editor)

Otros autores: Nelson Algren (Contribuidor), Sherwood Anderson (Contribuidor), Fredric Brown (Contribuidor), Sandra Cisneros (Contribuidor), Max Allan Collins (Contribuidor)10 más, Stuart Dybek (Contribuidor), Barry Gifford (Contribuidor), Libby Fischer Hellmann (Contribuidor), Patricia Highsmith (Contribuidor), Hugh Holton (Contribuidor), Stuart M. Kaminsky (Contribuidor), Harry Stephen Keeler (Contribuidor), Sara Paretsky (Contribuidor), Percy Spurlark Parker (Contribuidor), Richard Wright (Contribuidor)

Series: Akashic Noir

MiembrosReseñasPopularidadValoración promediaMenciones
5013509,510 (3.64)6
"In this superior entry in Akashic''s noir series, Meno offers nearly a century of Chicago crime fiction....Familiar bylines abound: Max Allan Collins, Richard Wright, Nelson Algren, Sherwood Anderson, Fredric Brown, Patricia Highsmith (with an excerpt from her novelThe Price of Salt), Stewart M. Kaminsky, Sara Paretsky. Others may be less familiar to mystery specialists, but all turn in impressive performances." --Publishers Weekly, Starred review "Richard Wright, Nelson Algren, and Sandra Cisneros are not crime-fiction writers, and yet their Chicago certainly embodies the individual-crushing ethos endemic to noir. Meno also includes stories from writers who could easily have been overlooked (Percy Spurlark Parker, Hugh Holton) to ensure that diverse voices, and neighborhoods, are represented. Add in smart and essential choices from Fredric Brown, Sara Paretsky, and Stuart Kaminsky, and you have not an anthology not for crime-fictionpurists, perhaps, but a thought-provoking document all the same." --Booklist "The fifteen short stories comprisingChicago Noir: The Classics, which are knowledgeably compiled and deftly edited by Joe Meno, are true gems of the noir literary tradition....Chicago Noir: The Classics is a consistently entertaining and will prove to be an enduringly popular addition to community library Mystery/Suspense collections." --Midwest Book Review "I''ve always enjoyed reading noir. Dark, ironic mysteries are a good read to me. Since this collection includes old classics as well as some new stories, I knew it would be good....I wasn''t disappointed." --Journey of a Bookseller "Chicago Noir The Classics does everything anthologies and noir are supposed to, but this title achieves an unheralded goal that deserves notice....This is wonderful diversity, coming both unexpected and unhearalded. Anthologies are supposed to convey a sense of having covered the territory, Joe Meno has. Ethnically diverse city, ethnically diverse plots. Better,Chicago Noir The Classics showcases diversity as normal, everyday. This adds inescapable satisfaction to a sense of the editor''s having covered the territory." --La Bloga "A worthy addition to the Akashic Books noir series." --Book Chase Although Los Angeles may be considered the most quintessentially "noir" American city, this volume reveals that pound-for-pound, Chicago has historically been able to stand up to any other metropolis in the noir arena. Classic reprints from: Harry Stephen Keeler, Sherwood Anderson, Max Allan Collins, Richard Wright, Nelson Algren, Fredric Brown, Patricia Highsmith, Barry Gifford, Stuart M. Kaminsky, Libby Fischer Hellmann, Sara Paretsky, Percy Spurlark Parker, Sandra Cisneros, Hugh Holton, and Stuart Dybek. From the introduction byJoe Meno: "More corrupt than New York, less glamorous than LA, Chicago has more murders per capita than any other city its size. With its sleek skyscrapers bisecting the fading sky like an unspoken threat, Chicago is the closest metropolis to the mythical city of shadows as first described in the work of Chandler, Hammett, and Cain. Only in Chicago do instituted color lines offer generation after generation of poverty and violence, only in Chicago do the majority of governors do prison time, only in Chicago do the dead actually vote twice. "Chicago--more than the metropolis that gave the world Al Capone, the Saint Valentine''s Day Massacre, the death of John Dillinger, the crimes of Leopold and Loeb, the horrors of John Wayne Gacy, the unprecedented institutional corruption of so many recent public officials, more than the birthplace of Raymond Chandler--is a city of darkness. This darkness is not an act of over-imagination. It''s the unadulterated truth. It''s a pointed though necessary reminder of the grave tragedies of the past and the failed possibilities of the present. Fifty years in the future, I hope these stories are read only as fiction, as somewhat distant fantasy. Here''s hoping for some light."… (más)
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An engaging and diverse collection of noir literature, though almost none of it is of the hard-boiled detective variety I'd been expecting. I do wish, however, that Chicago had a greater presence in some of these.

And for my own future reference, some authors introduced that I'd like to explore in future: Harry Stephen Keeler, Sherwood Anderson, Richard Wright, Nelson Algren, Stuart M. Kaminsky, Hugh Holton. ( )
  slimikin | Mar 27, 2022 |
I like the mixture of stories. Some were better than others. I think maybe the "noir" genre is growing on me. ( )
  bcrowl399 | Feb 6, 2019 |
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A very good collection of 15 short stories set in various times and in various locations around Chicago. Most of these stories give the reader a real feel for Chicago and its many neighborhoods.

My only gripe is that, while most of the stories focus on the city, some barely have a connection.

Even so, this is the first of the "city noir" book collections I've read and it certainly won' be my last. The hard part might be trying to figure out which one to read next.

Recommended to fans of mystery short stories. ( )
  lindapanzo | Feb 26, 2016 |
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a mixed group of stories, some pretty good, but sadly, more that are not. ( )
  caitemaire | Jan 21, 2016 |
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Another lovely collection of noir fiction from Akashic Books. I really enjoyed the breadth and quality of the stories included. The stories included cover a wider variety of textures and experiences than you might expect from a more traditional, hard-boiled "noir" compilation. This allows the stories, taken together, to paint a picture of Chicago as a dark and nuanced landscape of experience that is quite effective (even including an excerpt from "The Price of Salt", which is not that hard-boiled at all, showing the experience in Chicago of lovers passing through). ( )
  the_darling_copilots | Jan 5, 2016 |
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Meno, JoeEditorautor principaltodas las edicionesconfirmado
Algren, NelsonContribuidorautor secundariotodas las edicionesconfirmado
Anderson, SherwoodContribuidorautor secundariotodas las edicionesconfirmado
Brown, FredricContribuidorautor secundariotodas las edicionesconfirmado
Cisneros, SandraContribuidorautor secundariotodas las edicionesconfirmado
Collins, Max AllanContribuidorautor secundariotodas las edicionesconfirmado
Dybek, StuartContribuidorautor secundariotodas las edicionesconfirmado
Gifford, BarryContribuidorautor secundariotodas las edicionesconfirmado
Hellmann, Libby FischerContribuidorautor secundariotodas las edicionesconfirmado
Highsmith, PatriciaContribuidorautor secundariotodas las edicionesconfirmado
Holton, HughContribuidorautor secundariotodas las edicionesconfirmado
Kaminsky, Stuart M.Contribuidorautor secundariotodas las edicionesconfirmado
Keeler, Harry StephenContribuidorautor secundariotodas las edicionesconfirmado
Paretsky, SaraContribuidorautor secundariotodas las edicionesconfirmado
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"In this superior entry in Akashic''s noir series, Meno offers nearly a century of Chicago crime fiction....Familiar bylines abound: Max Allan Collins, Richard Wright, Nelson Algren, Sherwood Anderson, Fredric Brown, Patricia Highsmith (with an excerpt from her novelThe Price of Salt), Stewart M. Kaminsky, Sara Paretsky. Others may be less familiar to mystery specialists, but all turn in impressive performances." --Publishers Weekly, Starred review "Richard Wright, Nelson Algren, and Sandra Cisneros are not crime-fiction writers, and yet their Chicago certainly embodies the individual-crushing ethos endemic to noir. Meno also includes stories from writers who could easily have been overlooked (Percy Spurlark Parker, Hugh Holton) to ensure that diverse voices, and neighborhoods, are represented. Add in smart and essential choices from Fredric Brown, Sara Paretsky, and Stuart Kaminsky, and you have not an anthology not for crime-fictionpurists, perhaps, but a thought-provoking document all the same." --Booklist "The fifteen short stories comprisingChicago Noir: The Classics, which are knowledgeably compiled and deftly edited by Joe Meno, are true gems of the noir literary tradition....Chicago Noir: The Classics is a consistently entertaining and will prove to be an enduringly popular addition to community library Mystery/Suspense collections." --Midwest Book Review "I''ve always enjoyed reading noir. Dark, ironic mysteries are a good read to me. Since this collection includes old classics as well as some new stories, I knew it would be good....I wasn''t disappointed." --Journey of a Bookseller "Chicago Noir The Classics does everything anthologies and noir are supposed to, but this title achieves an unheralded goal that deserves notice....This is wonderful diversity, coming both unexpected and unhearalded. Anthologies are supposed to convey a sense of having covered the territory, Joe Meno has. Ethnically diverse city, ethnically diverse plots. Better,Chicago Noir The Classics showcases diversity as normal, everyday. This adds inescapable satisfaction to a sense of the editor''s having covered the territory." --La Bloga "A worthy addition to the Akashic Books noir series." --Book Chase Although Los Angeles may be considered the most quintessentially "noir" American city, this volume reveals that pound-for-pound, Chicago has historically been able to stand up to any other metropolis in the noir arena. Classic reprints from: Harry Stephen Keeler, Sherwood Anderson, Max Allan Collins, Richard Wright, Nelson Algren, Fredric Brown, Patricia Highsmith, Barry Gifford, Stuart M. Kaminsky, Libby Fischer Hellmann, Sara Paretsky, Percy Spurlark Parker, Sandra Cisneros, Hugh Holton, and Stuart Dybek. From the introduction byJoe Meno: "More corrupt than New York, less glamorous than LA, Chicago has more murders per capita than any other city its size. With its sleek skyscrapers bisecting the fading sky like an unspoken threat, Chicago is the closest metropolis to the mythical city of shadows as first described in the work of Chandler, Hammett, and Cain. Only in Chicago do instituted color lines offer generation after generation of poverty and violence, only in Chicago do the majority of governors do prison time, only in Chicago do the dead actually vote twice. "Chicago--more than the metropolis that gave the world Al Capone, the Saint Valentine''s Day Massacre, the death of John Dillinger, the crimes of Leopold and Loeb, the horrors of John Wayne Gacy, the unprecedented institutional corruption of so many recent public officials, more than the birthplace of Raymond Chandler--is a city of darkness. This darkness is not an act of over-imagination. It''s the unadulterated truth. It''s a pointed though necessary reminder of the grave tragedies of the past and the failed possibilities of the present. Fifty years in the future, I hope these stories are read only as fiction, as somewhat distant fantasy. Here''s hoping for some light."

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