The Best American Noir of the Century
Publisher: HMH
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 758
ISBN-13: 9780547330778
Description: From the Publisher: In his introduction to the The Best American Noir of the Century, James Ellroy writes, "Noir is the most scrutinized offshoot of the hard-boiled school of fiction. It's the long drop off the short pier and the wrong man and the wrong woman in perfect misalliance. It's the nightmare of flawed souls with big dreams and the precise how and why of the all-time sure thing that goes bad." Offering the best examples of literary sure things gone bad, this collection ensures that nowhere else can readers find a darker, more thorough distillation of American noir fiction. James Ellroy and Otto Penzler, series editor of the annual The Best American Mystery Stories, mined one hundred years of writing-1910-2010-to find this treasure trove of thirty-nine stories. From noir's twenties-era infancy come gems like James M. Cain's" "Pastorale," and its post-war heyday boasts giants like Mickey Spillane and Evan Hunter. Packing an undeniable punch, diverse contemporary incarnations include Elmore Leonard, Patricia Highsmith, Joyce Carol Oates, Dennis Lehane, and William Gay, with many page-turners appearing in the last decade.
Table of contents: label: Otto Penzler
title: Foreword
pagenum: ix; label: James Ellroy
title: Introduction
pagenum: xiii; label: 1923 - Tod Robbins
title: Spurs
pagenum: 1; label: 1928 - James M. Cain
title: Pastorale
pagenum: 17; label: 1938 - Steve Fisher
title: You'll Always Remember Me
pagenum: 25; label: 1940 - Mackinlay Kantor
title: Gun Crazy
pagenum: 45; label: 1945 - Day Keene
title: Nothing to Worry About
pagenum: 63; label: 1946 - Dorothy B. Hughes
title: The Homecoming
pagenum: 73; label: 1952 - Howard Browne
title: Man in the Dark
pagenum: 84; label: 1953 - Mickey Spillane
title: The Lady Says Die!
pagenum: 116; label: 1953 - David Goodis
title: Professional Man
pagenum: 127; label: 1955 - Charles Beaumont
title: The Hunger
pagenum: 151; label: 1956 - Gil Brewer
title: The Gesture
pagenum: 165; label: 1956 - Evan Hunter
title: The Last Spin
pagenum: 171; label: 1960 - Jim Thompson
title: Forever After
pagenum: 180; label: 1968 - Cornell Woolrich
title: For the Rest of Her Life
pagenum: 188; label: 1972 - David Morrell
title: The Dripping
pagenum: 211; label: 1979 - Patricia Highsmith
title: Slowly, Slowly in the Wind
pagenum: 219; label: 1984 - Stephen Greenleaf
title: Iris
pagenum: 227; label: 1987 - Brendan Dubois
title: A Ticket Out
pagenum: 247; label: 1988 - James Ellroy
title: Since I Don't Have You
pagenum: 261; label: 1991 - James Lee
title: Burke Texas City, 1947
pagenum: 285; label: 1993 - Harlan Ellison
title: Mefisto in Onyx
pagenum: 305; label: 1995 - Ed Gorman
title: Out There in the Darkness
pagenum: 349; label: 1996 - James Crumley
title: Hot Springs
pagenum: 384; label: 1996 - Jeffery Deaver
title: The Weekender
pagenum: 400; label: 1997 - Joyce Carol Oates
title: Faithless
pagenum: 422; label: 1998 - Tom Franklin
title: Poachers
pagenum: 445; label: 1998 - Lawrence Block
title: Like a Bone in the Throat
pagenum: 486; label: 1999 - James W. Hall
title: Crack
pagenum: 508; label: 1999 - Dennis Lehane
title: Running Out of Dog
pagenum: 518; label: 2000 - William Gay
title: The Paperhanger
pagenum: 549; label: 2001 - F. X. Toole
title: Midnight Emissions
pagenum: 564; label: 2002 - Elmore Leonard
title: When the Women Come Out to Dance
pagenum: 595; label: 2002 - Scott Wolven
title: Controlled Burn
pagenum: 607; label: 2003 - Christopher Coake
title: All Through the House
pagenum: 617; label: 2005 - Thomas H. Cook
title: What She Offered
pagenum: 655; label: 2005 - Andrew Klavan
title: Her Lord and Master
pagenum: 668; label: 2006 - Chris Adrian
title: Stab
pagenum: 677; label: 2006 - Bradford Morrow
title: The Hoarder
pagenum: 697; label: 2007 - Lorenzo Carcaterra
title: Missing the Morning Bus
pagenum: 716