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Chicago Noir: The Classics by Joe Meno (ed.) is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Chicago Noir: The Classics about?
RetailAlthough 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 by Joe 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...
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Joe Meno (ed.)
- Publisher
- Akashic Books
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Short Stories, Anthology, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.5 / 5 (50 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14