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Providence Noir by Hood, Ann & Searles, John & Lee, Marie Myung-Ok & Rice, Luanne & Raffel, Dawn & Cobb, Thomas & Barnett, Lashonda Katrice & Strout, Elizabeth & Polites, Taylor M. & Kaplan, Hester & Leuci, Robert & Gaige, Amity & Farrelly, Peter & Rodriguez, Pablo & DeSilva, Bruce is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Providence Noir about?
**Peter Farrelly's story "The Saturday Night Before Easter Sunday" has been nominated for an Edgar Award for Best Short Story!** Named a Favorite Book of 2015 by Scott MacKay at **Rhode Island Public Radio** "Even Providence's signature public art has a dark side in *Providence Noir* (Akashic), which includes a story called 'WaterFire's Smell Tonight' by Pablo Rodriguez. Each tale in this anthology edited by Ann Hood is set in a different part of the city. Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout's story takes place at Trinity Repertory Company. Thomas Cobb, whose novel *Crazy Heart* was made into a movie with Jeff Bridges, tees up at Triggs Memorial Golf Course, and *Dumb and Dumber* co-writer and co-director Peter Farrelly, a graduate of Providence College, sets his story in the Elmhurst neighborhood, near his old college stomping grounds." --** *Boston Globe* ** "Providence, of course, has a history of crime, the mob, corruption and other goodies. In this collection of 15 stories...we are given a darkly hued tour of the city in all its nooks and crannies by such excellent writers as Hood herself, John Searles, Bruce DeSilva, Peter Farrelly, Elizabeth Strout, Hester Kaplan and othe
Who reads Providence Noir?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Hood, Ann & Searles, John & Lee, Marie Myung-Ok & Rice, Luanne & Raffel, Dawn & Cobb, Thomas & Barnett, Lashonda Katrice & Strout, Elizabeth & Polites, Taylor M. & Kaplan, Hester & Leuci, Robert & Gaige, Amity & Farrelly, Peter & Rodriguez, Pablo & DeSilva, Bruce
- Publisher
- Akashic Books, Ltd.
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781617753657
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Short Stories, Travel, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.6 / 5 (69 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
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