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Manhattan noir 2 : the classics / edited by Lawrence Block.
- Title
- Manhattan noir 2 : the classics / edited by Lawrence Block.
- Publication
- New York : Akashic Books, c2008.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PS549.N5 M36 2008 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Block, Lawrence
- Description
- 273 p. : map.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004. Each book is comprised of all new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. Here, Lawrence Block explores the historic literary roots of this dark island. --Publisher.
- Series Statement
- Akashic noir series
- Alternative Title
- Manhattan noir two : the classics
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Fiction
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Mrs. Manstey's view / Edith Wharton -- A poker game / Stephen Crane -- The furnished room / O. Henry -- Spanish blood / Langston Hughes -- Sailor off the Bremen / Irwin Shaw -- My aunt from Twelfth Street / Jerome Weidman -- Johnny One-eye / Damon Runyon -- The last spin / Evan Hunter -- New York Blues / Cornell Woolrich -- The raven / Edgar Allan Poe -- Selections from Chelsea rooming house / Horace Gregory -- Selections from The McSorley poems / Geoffrey Bartholomew -- The Luger is a 9mm automatic handgun with a parabellum action / Jerrold Mundis -- The interceptor / Barry N. Malzberg -- Crowded lives / Clark Howard -- Young Isaac / Jerome Charyn -- Love in the lean years / Donald E. Westlake -- A Manhattan romance / Joyce Carol Oates -- In for a penny / Lawrence Block -- Two over easy / Susan Isaacs.
- ISBN
- 9781933354576 (trade pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2008925934
- OCLC
- 216936974
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library