Manhattan Noir 2: The Classics

Manhattan Noir 2: The Classics

Manhattan Noir 2: The Classics

Manhattan Noir 2: The Classics

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Overview

This anthology spans more than a century of noir fiction set in the heart of the Big Apple—“17 sure winners” from Edith Wharton, Donald Westlake, and more (Publishers Weekly, starred review).

The island of Manhattan has been a breeding ground of crime, longing, and discontent since its earliest days as a city—and a natural setting for noir fiction since the genre was invented. And from Harlem to Greenwich Village to Wall Street, it has also been home to many a great writer. After the success of the first Manhattan Noir, dedicated to all-new stories, Lawrence Block combed through the borough’s long literary history to deliver this stellar collection of classics, even stretching the bounds of noir to include poems by Edgar Allen Poe and others. 

Manhattan Noir 2: The Classics features entries by Edith Wharton, Stephen Crane, O. Henry, Langston Hughes, Irwin Shaw, Jerome Weidman, Damon Runyon, Evan Hunter, Jerrold Mundis, Edgar Allan Poe, Horace Gregory, Geoffrey Bartholomew, Cornell Woolrich, Barry N. Malzberg, Clark Howard, Jerome Charyn, Donald E. Westlake, Joyce Carol Oates, Lawrence Block, and Susan Isaacs.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781617752223
Publisher: Akashic Books
Publication date: 09/01/2008
Series: Akashic Noir Series
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 273
File size: 598 KB

About the Author

About The Author
Lawrence Block has won most of the major mystery awards, and has been called the quintessential New York writer, although he insists the city's far too big to have a quintessential writer. His series characters-Matthew Scudder, Bernie Rhodenbarr, Evan Tanner, Chip Harrison, and Keller-all live in Manhattan; like their creator, they would not really be happy anywhere else.

Lawrence Block is one of the most widely recognized names in the mystery genre. He has been named a Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America and is a four-time winner of the prestigious Edgar and Shamus Awards, as well as a recipient of prizes in France, Germany, and Japan. He received the Diamond Dagger from the British Crime Writers' Association—only the third American to be given this award. He is a prolific author, having written more than fifty books and numerous short stories, and is a devoted New Yorker and an enthusiastic global traveler.


Edith Wharton (1862–1937) published more than forty books during her lifetime, including the classic Gilded Age society novels Ethan FromeThe House of Mirth, and The Age of Innocence, for which she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Stephen Crane (1871–1900) was an American poet, novelist, and journalist. His best-known works, The Red Badge of Courage and Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, are widely regarded as two of the most innovative novels of the nineteenth century. After surviving a shipwreck off the coast of Florida—an experience he fictionalized in the short story “The Open Boat”—and reporting from battlefields in Cuba and Greece, Crane died in a German sanatorium at the age of twenty-eight. 
O. Henry (1862–1910) was the pseudonym of American author William Sidney Porter. Arrested for embezzlement in 1895, he escaped the police and fled to Honduras, where he wrote Cabbages and Kings (1904). On his return to the United States, he was caught, and served three years before being released. He became one of the most popular short story authors in history, known for his wit, surprise endings, and relatable, everyman characters.

Date of Birth:

January 24, 1862

Date of Death:

August 11, 1937

Place of Birth:

New York, New York

Place of Death:

Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, France

Education:

Educated privately in New York and Europe

Table of Contents

Introduction

Part I: The Old School

“Mrs. Manstey’s View” by Edith Wharton (Greenwich Village, 1891)

“A Poker Game” by Stephen Crane (East 40s, 1902)

“The Furnished Room” by O. Henry (Lower West Side, 1906)

“Spanish Blood” by Langston Hughes (Harlem, 1934)

“Sailor off the Bremen” by Irwin Shaw (West Village, 1939)

“My Aunt from Twelfth Street” by Jerome Weidman (Alphabet City, 1939)

“Johnny One-Eye” by Damon Runyon (Broadway, 1941)

“The Last Spin” by Evan Hunter (Washington Heights, 1956)

“New York Blues” by Cornell Woolrich (East 37th Street, 1970)

Part II: The Poets

“The Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe (West 84th Street, 1845)

Selections from Chelsea Rooming House by Horace Gregory (Chelsea, 1930)

Selections from The McSorley Poems by Geoffrey Bartholomew (East Village, 2001)

Part III: The Darkness Visible

“The Luger Is a 9mm Automatic Handgun with a Parabellum Action” by Jerrold Mundis (Central Park, 1969)

“The Interceptor” by Barry N. Malzberg (Upper West Side, 1972)

“Crowded Lives” by Clark Howard (Sixth Avenue, 1989)

“Young Isaac” by Jerome Charyn (Lower East Side, 1990)

“Love in the Lean Years” by Donald E. Westlake (Wall Street, 1992)

“A Manhattan Romance” by Joyce Carol Oates (Central Park South, 1997)

“In for a Penny” by Lawrence Block (Eighth Avenue, 1999)

“Two Over Easy” by Susan Isaacs (Murray Hill, 2008)

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