Alabama noir
"There must be places like Hawaii where the idea of noir would be difficult to accommodate. Sunshine, drinks in a coconut, warm beaches, and leis do not generate the fear, darkness, and despair on which noir thrives. Alabama also has plenty of sunshine, some lovely beaches, and only a few foggy waterfronts where miscreants lurk, but it has been a famously dark place. Americans of a certain age read in their daily papers about the burning of the Freedom Riders' bus in Anniston and about the KKK beating those riders at the Birmingham and Montgomery bus stations in May 1961, with the silent cooperation of law enforcement. Americans actually watched, on the evening news, the German shepherds and fire hoses used on demonstrators in Birmingham and the violence at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma. These days, Alabama has truly turned a corner on race, but the past will not, should not, and in fact cannot be forgotten. We are aware of the past here on a daily basis... The stories [in Alabama Noir] range from the deadly grim to some that are actually mildly humorous. We see desperate behavior on the banks of the Tennessee River, in the neighborhoods of Birmingham, in the affluent suburbs of Mobile, in a cemetery in Montgomery, and even on the deceptively pleasant beaches of the Gulf of Mexico."--Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781617758089
- ISBN: 1617758086
- Physical Description: 255 pages : map ; 21 cm.
- Publisher: Brooklyn, New York : Akashic Books, [2020]
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | Part I: Cold, cold heart. Exhaustion / Anita Miller Garner -- Deepwater, dark horizons / Suzanne Hudson -- Bubb and Romy's platonic bender / Kirk Curnutt -- Custom meats / Wendy Reed -- Part II: Your cheatin' heart. The price of indulgence / Carolyn Haines -- Come like a thief / Anthony Grooms -- What brings you back home / Michelle Richmond -- Murder at the Grand Hotel / Winston Groom -- Sweet baby / Ace Atkins -- Part III: I'm so lonesome I could cry. The good thief / Ravi Howard -- Her job / Tom Franklin -- Xenia, queen of the dark / Thom Gossom Jr. -- Part IV: The angel of death. Laughing boy, crooked girl / Brad Watson -- Triptych / Daniel Wallace -- The junction boys / D. Winston Brown -- All the dead in Oakwood / Marlin Barton. |
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Subject: | Detective and mystery stories, American. Alabama > Fiction. Short stories. Short stories. Detective and mystery stories, American. Alabama. |
Genre: | Fiction. Noir fiction. Short stories. Short stories. Noir fiction. |
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