{"product_id":"manhattan-noir-2-the-classics","title":"Manhattan Noir 2 The Classics","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lawrence Block\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTitle:\u003c\/b\u003e Manhattan Noir 2 The Classics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber Of Pages:\u003c\/b\u003e 273\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 2008\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAkashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each story is set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFeaturing stories 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the introduction by Lawrence Block: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Noir seems to me to transcend form. Film and theater can fit comfortably in the shade of its dark canopy, and so surely can poetry. Some operas make the cut--Verdi's Rigoletto, it's worth noting, had its plot lifted in Damon Runyon's oft-anthologized \"Sense of Humor.\" And who could look at Goya's black paintings and not perceive them as visual representations of noir? And what is Billie Holiday's recording of \"Gloomy Sunday\" if it isn't noir? Or the Beatles' Eleanor Rigby, who died in the church and was buried along with her name? I'd include them, and I'd pull in Beethoven's late quartets while I was at it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRather than exercise false modesty (which is the only sort of which I'm capable), I've included a story of my own . . . Really, how could I resist? How could I pass up the opportunity to share a volume with Stephen Crane and O. Henry and Edgar Allan Poe and Damon Runyon and Irwin Shaw and Edith Wharton and, well, all of these literary superstars? My mother would be so proud . . .\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEAN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781933354576\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePackage Dimensions:\u003c\/b\u003e Height: 8.4 inches, Length: 5.3 inches, Weight: 0.63493131456 Pounds, Width: 0.9 inches\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguages:\u003c\/b\u003e en\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lawrence Block","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53801791160627,"sku":"9781933354576","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0949\/3636\/7411\/files\/9613723482876.jpg?v=1785980783","url":"https:\/\/bookabaloo.com\/products\/manhattan-noir-2-the-classics","provider":"Bookabaloo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}