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Phoenix Noir (Akashic Noir)

Edgar Award

Phoenix Noir (Akashic Noir)

ルイス・アルベルト・ウレア

A short story by Luis Alberto Urrea, first collected in a crime-fiction anthology. Set against the heat of the American Southwest, a sense of immigrant borderlands, and the shadow of violence, it portrays human choices and loss. The story was later reprinted in one of Urrea’s own collections.

short mystery fictionurban crimeborderlandslossAmerican Southwest

Work Information

A story in which pain and dangerous choices emerge from the shadows of a desert city.

Collected in Phoenix Noir, the story uses the dry light and hidden darkness of Phoenix as its background, portraying desire, violence, and people who slip away from family or community. After its award recognition, it was also included in The Water Museum and is read as evidence of Urrea’s strength as a short-story writer.

Review Summaries

  • The story is valued for linking a noir framework with a strong sense of place and human frailty. Beyond the crime plot, regional memory and cultural borders give the narrative depth.

Book Information

Publisher
Akashic Books
Published
2009-11-01
Pages
304 pages
Language
英語
Size
13.97 x 2.03 x 21.34 cm
ISBN-13
9781933354859
ISBN-10
1933354852
Price
7677 JPY
Category
洋書/Mystery & Thrillers/Mystery/Anthologies

“ Patrick Millikin ...as if to prove his witty claim that 'sunshine is the new noir,' offers one superb specimen, 'Whiteout on Van Buren,' in which [author] Don Winslow makes skillful use of a city street at high noon to provide the perfect metaphor for life and death.”— New York Times Book Review Brand-new stories by: Diana Gabaldon, Lee Child, James Sallis, Luis Alberto Urrea, Jon Talton, Megan Abbott, Charles Kelly, Robert Anglen, Patrick Millikin, Laura Tohe, Kurt Reichenbaugh, Gary Phillips, David Corbett, Don Winslow, Dogo Barry Graham, and Stella Pope Duarte. Patrick Millikin is a bookseller at the Poisoned Pen Bookstore in Scottsdale. As a freelance writer, his articles, interviews, and reviews have appeared in Publishers Weekly , Firsts Magazine , Paradoxa , Yourflesh Quarterly , and other publications. Millikin currently lives in central Phoenix.

Patrick Millikin is a bookseller at the Poisoned Pen Bookstore in Scottsdale. As a freelance writer, his articles, interviews, and reviews have appeared in Publishers Weekly, Firsts Magazine, Paradoxa, Yourflesh Quarterly, and other publications. Born in Los Angeles, he moved to Arizona in 1972 and grew up in Scottsdale. Millikin currently lives in central Phoenix.

Reviews

  • Meh

    A collection of pulp fiction stories by mostly unknown writers trying hard to be “gritty”. Pass.

  • One of the greatest books of short stories--noir or not--that's out there!

    When I first think of Phoenix, having lived here for almost twenty years, I tend to think of suburban and exurban sprawl and a beige, characterless existence among transplants from other, more defined regions of the country, who move to the warmth and let their previous affiliations melt away. This book, though, made me see my own metropolitan region in a far different, more layered, more interesting way! The stories are probably the best in the Akashic set that I've read--and I own many of the books. Different time periods are represented, which is great, and the plots are all moving and page-turning. I totally loved it.

  • Read and decide

    Short stories of drugs and a city.Some are excellent others not so much,but worth the read.

  • Good stories

    Some of the stories were great, some less. All in all a good book and it makes you want to travel to Phoenix, so not a bad sign.

  • Looked Used

    I returned it.

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