"Dennis Lehane advises us not to judge the genre by its Hollywood images of sharp men in fedoras lighting cigarettes for femmes fatales standing in the dark alleys. . . . [Lehane] writes persuasively of the gentrification that has . . . left people feeling crushed."â??New York Times Book Review Brand-new stories by: Dennis Lehane, Stewart O'Nan, Patricia Powell, John Dufresne, Lynne Heitman, Don Lee, Russ Aborn, Itabari Njeri, Jim Fusilli, Brendan DuBois, and Dana Cameron. Dennis Lehane (Mystic River, The Given Day) has proven himself to be a master of both crime fiction and literary fiction. Here, he extends his literary prowess to that of master curator. In keeping with the Akashic Noir series tradition, each story in Boston Noir is set in a different neighborhood of the cityâ??the impressively diverse collection extends from Roxbury to Cambridge, from Southie to the Boston Harbor, and all stops in between. Lehane's own contributionâ??the longest story in the volumeâ??is set in his beloved home neighborhood of Dorchester and showcases his phenomenal ability to grip the heart, soul, and throat of the reader. In 2003, Lehane's novel Mystic River was adapted into film and quickly garnered six Academy Award nominations (with Sean Penn and Tim Robbins each winning Academy Awards). Boston Noir launches in November 2009 just as Shutter Island, the film based on Lehane's best-selling 2003 novel of the same title, hits the big screen. Dennis Lehane is the author of The New York Times bestseller Mystic River (also an Academy Awardâ??winning major motion picture); Prayers for Rain; Gone, Baby, Gone (also a major motion picture); Sacred; Darkness, Take My Hand; A Drink Before the War, which won the Shamus Award for Best First Novel; and, most recently, The Given Day. A native of Dorchester, Massachusetts, he splits his time between the Boston area an… (más)
Akashic Books has been publishing a series of original short story collections featuring specific cities or, in a few cases, states or even countries, for a number of years now, all of which are examples of noir fiction - that is, somewhat seedy, usually at least a bit criminal and always quite dark. I pick up these books as I find them, because they’re always well-curated and entertaining to read. "Boston Noir" features stories by Brendan DuBois, Stewart O’Nan, Itabari Njeri, Dana Cameron and Dennis Lehane, among others; the authors chosen for these books are generally people with ties to the city or region under consideration, which makes them that much more interesting. Different people will like different stories in these collections, but the quality of the writing is uniformly good and sometimes great. As it happens, I was born just outside Boston (although I didn’t live there beyond the age of 3 or so), which made this particular collection especially fun for me. Definitely worth picking up - I mean the whole series - if you run across them; recommended! ( )
First Kindle book borrowed with my new Belmont library card! (And a good thing too, as I had been interested in reading it for awhile but it wasn't my style, so glad it was free.) ( )
Meh. Boston Noir is focused primarily on a particular kind of Boston, a sort of Hollywood vision of the good old days when regular guys (Irish, drunk, not real bright) ran the seedier side of things, or, slightly more realistically, a Boston where those same kinds of people believe the Hollywood version of the city really existed and want to make it real again. The stories are depressingly similar - not badly written, just not different enough from each other to be memorable. It's a quick read, though, and not un-entertaining; it's just not as mind-blowingly good as you probably want it to be, given the names in the table of contents. ( )
"Dennis Lehane advises us not to judge the genre by its Hollywood images of sharp men in fedoras lighting cigarettes for femmes fatales standing in the dark alleys. . . . [Lehane] writes persuasively of the gentrification that has . . . left people feeling crushed."â??New York Times Book Review Brand-new stories by: Dennis Lehane, Stewart O'Nan, Patricia Powell, John Dufresne, Lynne Heitman, Don Lee, Russ Aborn, Itabari Njeri, Jim Fusilli, Brendan DuBois, and Dana Cameron. Dennis Lehane (Mystic River, The Given Day) has proven himself to be a master of both crime fiction and literary fiction. Here, he extends his literary prowess to that of master curator. In keeping with the Akashic Noir series tradition, each story in Boston Noir is set in a different neighborhood of the cityâ??the impressively diverse collection extends from Roxbury to Cambridge, from Southie to the Boston Harbor, and all stops in between. Lehane's own contributionâ??the longest story in the volumeâ??is set in his beloved home neighborhood of Dorchester and showcases his phenomenal ability to grip the heart, soul, and throat of the reader. In 2003, Lehane's novel Mystic River was adapted into film and quickly garnered six Academy Award nominations (with Sean Penn and Tim Robbins each winning Academy Awards). Boston Noir launches in November 2009 just as Shutter Island, the film based on Lehane's best-selling 2003 novel of the same title, hits the big screen. Dennis Lehane is the author of The New York Times bestseller Mystic River (also an Academy Awardâ??winning major motion picture); Prayers for Rain; Gone, Baby, Gone (also a major motion picture); Sacred; Darkness, Take My Hand; A Drink Before the War, which won the Shamus Award for Best First Novel; and, most recently, The Given Day. A native of Dorchester, Massachusetts, he splits his time between the Boston area an
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