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DC Noir

DC Noir

DC Noir
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DC Noir Paperback - 2006

by George Pelecanos (Editor)

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Mystery sensation Pelecanos pens the lead story and edits this groundbreaking collection of stories detailing the seedy underside of the nation's capital. This is not an anthology of ill-conceived and inauthentic political thrillers. Instead, in "D.C. Noir," pimps, whores, gangsters, and con-men run rampant in zones of this city that most never hear about.

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  • Title DC Noir
  • Author George Pelecanos (Editor)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: repri
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 325
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Akashic Books, New York
  • Publication date February 2006
  • Features Maps, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 3819860-6
  • ISBN 9781888451900 / 1888451904
  • Weight 0.68 lbs (0.31 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.06 x 5.74 x 0.94 in (20.47 x 14.58 x 2.39 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: South Atlantic
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2005925467
  • Dewey Decimal Code 813.087
  • Quantity available 2

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From the publisher

"Every story in this all-original noir anthology set in the nation's capital is well-written." --Publishers Weekly

Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each story is set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book.

Brand-new stories by: George Pelecanos, Laura Lippman, James Grady, Kenji Jasper, Jim Beane, Ruben Castaneda, Jim Patton, Robert Wisdom, Norman Kelley, Jennifer Howard, Jim Fusilli, Richard Currey, Lester Irby, Quintin Peterson, Robert Andrews, and David Slater.

From the introduction by George Pelecanos:

"It's about the collective memories of the locals, and also about the voices. If you close your eyes and listen to the people of this city, you will hear the many different voices . . .We have tried to explore every quadrant of the city and many of the neighborhoods within them, and have not forgotten the federal city and downtown. We have enlisted the well-known and the someday-will-be. The writers include lifelong Washingtonians, imports and exports, a gentleman who was incarcerated when he wrote his story, a police officer, an actor, bloggers, journalists, blacks, whites, Hispanics, males and females, and yeah, even a Greek American."

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Citations

  • Booklist, 12/15/2005, Page 27
  • Kirkus Reviews, 12/15/2005, Page 1303
  • Multicultural Review, 05/01/2007, Page 13
  • Publishers Weekly, 12/05/2005, Page 35

About the author

George Pelecanos is an independent film producer, the recipient of numerous international writing awards, a producer and an Emmy-nominated writer on the HBO series The Wire, and the author of a fifteen novels set in and around Washington, D.C. He is the editor of the best-selling first volume of D.C. Noir.

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