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Lädt ... Houston Noir (Akashic Noir) (2019. Auflage)von Gwendolyn Zepeda (Herausgeber), Tom Abrahams (Mitwirkender), Robert Boswell (Mitwirkender), Sarah Cortez (Mitwirkender), Anton DiSclafani (Mitwirkender) — 10 mehr, Stephanie Jaye Evans (Mitwirkender), Deborah D.E.E. P. Mouton (Mitwirkender), Wanjiku wa Ngugi (Mitwirkender), Adrienne Perry (Mitwirkender), Pia Pico (Mitwirkender), Reyes Ramirez (Mitwirkender), Icess Fernandez Rojas (Mitwirkender), Sehba Sarwar (Mitwirkender), Leslie Contreras Schwartz (Mitwirkender), Larry Watts (Mitwirkender)
Werk-InformationenHouston Noir von Gwendolyn Zepeda (Editor)
![]() Keine Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() (Note: this book was provided to me by the publisher as a LibraryThing early reviewer.) ![]() Although I've never been to Houston, the stories in the book definitely had a feeling of place to them. Whether taking place in upscale suburbs with McMansions, in newly gentrified neighborhoods, or on the wrong side of the tracks, this collection, more than most in the series gave me a feel for the city. The diverse voices on a variety of subjects helped with this a lot. The standout story is the final one in the book: Jamie's Mother by Stephanie Jaye Evans. It is a heartbreaker. ![]() To me, the ones that succeeded the best at both noir and a Houston feel were Tolerance by Tom Abrahams and Jamie's Mother by Stephanie Jaye Evans. The Evans piece was the final story in the collection and actually raised my review from 3-1/2 stars to 4 because of its inclusion. From the opening sentence, "She was walking through the streets at midnight because she had a man to meet, she was carrying a gun because she was going to kill him, and she was wearing high heels because she hadn't thought it through," Evans had me hooked. And the atmosphere of the Abrahams story was well crafted. But there were elements of many of the other stories that I liked as well and I particularly enjoyed the diversity of voices represented because it felt like the diversity of Houston. ![]() keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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"Zepeda's introduction notes her hometown's unique features, including the absence of any zoning laws, making Houston 'culturally diverse, internally incongruous, and ever-changing'...Noir aficionados will be pleased." -- Publishers Weekly "There's precious little comfort to be found in any of these Houston neighborhoods, most of which are set light-years away from the city's notoriously cushy new-money culture...Houston comes across as a haven of multiculturalism--though, as in all the 90-plus volumes of Akashic's 15-year-old series, the vision of the city that emerges isn't likely to jump-start tourism for any but the most ghoulishly inclined." -- Kirkus Reviews " Houston Noir has arrived, an ode to the grime, grit and glamour of Texas's largest, most fascinating (and, to be fair, probably ugliest) city. Houston is unique in Texas history in that it's a large, multicultural port city that has never had zoning laws. While that can mean oil refineries located right next to schools, it can also mean--and does mean--one of the least segregated cities in the United States, which, combined with urban sprawl, means every kind of story, in every kind of combination, is up for grabs as a Houston story. We can't wait to see all the different visions of this complex town!" -- CrimeReads " Houston Noir is a great collection of fourteen noir mysteries in the always reliable, always intriguing Akashic Noir series. This collection was edited by Gwendolyn Zepeda who did a bang-up job of selecting writers and encouraging them to great noir." -- Tonstant Weader Reviews Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir . Each book comprises all new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. Brand-new stories by: Tom Abrahams, Robert Boswell, Sarah Cortez, Anton DiSclafani, Stephanie Jaye Evans, Wanjiku Wa Ngugi, Adrienne Perry, Pia Pico, Reyes Ramirez, Icess Fernandez Rojas, Sehba Sarwar, Leslie Contreras Schwartz, Larry Watts, and Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton. From the introduction by Gwendolyn Zepeda: In a 2004 essay, Hunter S. Thompson described Houston as a "cruel, crazy town on a filthy river in East Texas with no zoning laws and a culture of sex, money and violence. It's a shabby, sprawling metropolis ruled by brazen women, crooked cops and super-rich pansexual cowboys who live by the code of the West--which can mean just about anything you need it to mean, in a pinch." For what it's worth, that quote is now posted on a banner somewhere downtown and regularly, gleefully repeated by our local feature writers. Houston is a port city on top of a swamp and, yes, it has no zoning laws. And that means it's culturally diverse, internally incongruous, and ever-changing. At any intersection here, I might look out my car window and see a horse idly munching St. Augustine grass. And, within spitting distance of that horse, I might see a "spa" that's an obvious brothel, a house turned drug den, or a swiftly rising bayou that might overtake a car if the rain doesn't let up...Overall, this collection represents the very worst our city has to offer, for residents and visitors alike. But it also presents some of our best voices, veteran and emerging, to any reader lucky enough to pick up this book. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
LibraryThing Early Reviewers-AutorGwendolyn Zepedas Buch Houston Noir wurde im Frührezensenten-Programm LibraryThing Early Reviewers angeboten. Aktuelle DiskussionenKeine
![]() GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.08720806Literature English (North America) American fiction By type Genre fiction Adventure fiction Mystery fictionKlassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt:![]()
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