The Best American Noir of the Century

Posted on 24 August 2017 by James Ellroy

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, 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 El Leonard, Patricia Highsmith, Joyce Carol Oates, Dennis Lehane, and William Gay, with many page turners appearing in the last decade. Best Download Kindle ePUB The Best American Noir of the Century Author James Ellroy – kino-fada.fr James Ellroy and Otto Penzler have collected in this volume a large number of very dark crime stories spanning the years from 1910 to 2010 Included are stories by a number of very familiar writers like Mickey Spillane, Gil Brewer, James M Cain, Jim Thompson, James Ellroy, Lawrence Block, and El Leonard There are also works by a number of lesser known writers, but the stories are uniformly good and most of them won awards of one kind or another.My personal favorites are probably James Crum James Ellroy and Otto Penzler...Spurs by Tod RobbinsA circus story from 1930s a tale of a small man, part of the freak show side the circus, with a big heart for a beautiful horseback rider A match not possibly made in heaven as the bride to be has other plans for her new husband Her heart is cold for him but warm for wealth, she plots and advises of her plans to a different person she wishes to be married to in the future also a performer in their circus The small man turns out to be harder to crack than she thought and sh Spurs by Tod RobbinsA circus story from 1930s a tale of a small man, part of the freak show side the circus, with a big heart for a beautiful horseback rider A match not possibly made in heaven as the bride to be has other plans for her new husband Her heart is cold for him but warm for wealth, she plots and advises of her plans to a different person she wishes to be married to in the future also a performer in their circus The small man turns out to be harder to crack than she thought and she finds the tables have turned You can only think that she is to blame in the end due to her own evil plan.Very good story filled with wonderful characters and...Other reviews of this collection often debated if all the stories selected for this book can truly be called noir Since I struggle to even pronounce noir correctly, I will avoid that debate completely These stories were dark and gritty and could I read nothan one or two a week often accompanied by a glass of wine for the nerves Everyone will have their own favorites and their own dogs I jumped around throughout the collection rather than reading in chronicnoligcal order but I found Other reviews of this collection often debated if all the stories selected for this book ca...When a book boasts the monumental declaration, The Best American Noir of the Century, it damn well better stand up to scrutiny all prodigious 752 pages of it And so it was with relish that I tucked into this meaty and bloody feast from arguably the finest literary writers of noir America has ever produced, hoping for some tasty morsels The Best American Noir of the Century is a colossal collection of 39 short stories dating from as far back as 1923, right up to 2007, and selected by James Ellr When a book boasts the monumental declaration, The Best American Noir of the Century, it damn well better stand up to scrutiny all prodigious 752 pages of it And so it was with relish that I tucked into this meaty and bloody feast from arguably the finest literary writers of noir America has ever produced, hoping for some tasty morsels The Best American Noir of the Century is a colossal collection of 39 short stories dating from as far back as 1923, right up to 2007, and selected by James Ellroy and Otto Penzler, neither of whom need an introd...En esta antolog a conformada por diez relatos, encontramos las plumas de los autores estadounidenses m s reconocidos dentro del g nero negro Cada una de las historias contenidas en este libro, nos presentan personajes s rdidos, corrompidos, perseguidos por el pasado y dispuestos a matar con tal de obtener una venganza, dinero o incluso amor.La calidad de todos los relatos es buena, sin embargo, para mi existieron tres que sobresalieron Lenta, lentamente al viento de Patricia Highsmith, Infi En esta antolog a conformada por diez relatos, encontramos las plumas de los autores estadounidenses m s reconocidos dentro del g nero negro Cada una de las historias contenidas en este libro, nos presentan personajes s rdidos, corrompidos, perseguidos por el pasado y dispuestos a matar con tal de obtener una venganza, dinero o incluso amor.La ca...This book is wrongly named It claims to contain the best American noir of the century but which century is that The collection covers the years 1923 to 2007, which is 84 years from two different centuries Also, a lot of the best American noir is found in novel form So this book should really have been called The Best American Noir Short Stories from an 84 year period except that doesn t have the same ring, does it Ah well This will be another of those story by story reviews that I keep This book is wrongly named It claims to contain the best American noir of the century but which century is that The collection covers the years 1923 to 2007, which is 84 years from two different centuries Also, a lot of the best American noir is found in novel form So this book should really have been called The Best American Noir Short Stories from an 84 year period except that doesn t have the same ring, does it Ah well This will be another of those story by story reviews that I keep updating until I finish the book in question So here goes Todd Robbins Spurs Apparently this is the story that inspired the movie Freaks , which I haven t see...I read this compilation as part of the 387 Short Story Challenge one story a day for the past month or so There are about 30 out of these 35 stories I really liked, but only a handful of them make the amazing grade.So after much thought, I m not going to be tempted into rating it five stars Given how dark depres...I m back from my blogging hiatus now that another semester has passed How long this return will last before I m pulled entirely back into my studies I can t be sure Still, it is nice to have time for reading for fun again The Best American Noir of the Century is a collection compiled by James Ellroy and Otto Penzler It s a massive book with nearly forty stories, and stretches as far back as 1923 Tom Robbins Spurs and as recently as 2007 Lorenzo Carcaterra s Missing The Morning Bus fo I m back from my blogging hiatus now that another semester has passed How long this return will last before I m pulled entirely back into my studies I can t be sure Still, it is nice to have time for reading for fun again The Best American Noir of the Century is a collection compiled by James Ellroy and Otto Penzler It s a massive book with nearly forty stories, and stretches as far back as 1923 Tom Robbins Spurs and as recently as 2007 Lorenzo Carcaterra s Missing The Morning Bus for it s material When a collection claims to be the best of the year, I approach it with what can only be described as modest expectations If the time period expands to larger proportions, such as decades ormy skepticism and hopes rise in rather unequal amounts Usually in favor of the former, seeing as I am a bit cynical, even around the holidays Luckily I was pleasantly surprised again and again while reading these stories.Noir, in literary terms can seem at times to be simple and complex when it comes to classificat...Some short stories are better than others in this collection but James Lee Burke s Texas City, 1947 is by itself, worth the price of the book Billy Bob is a young Cajun boy growing up in very tough family circumstances in 1947 South Texas His teacher is a wonderfully drawn Catholic Nun who becomes a kind of surrogate mother The boy s name is Billy Bob but it could just as well be Dave, as in Dave Robicheaux All the characters gut wrenching emotions jump off the pages like a punch in the th Some short stories are better than others in this collection but James Lee Burke s Texas City, 1947 is by itself, worth the price of the book Billy Bob is...It is hard to review a collection of short stories do you rate based on the average ratings of all the stories or how you felt of the book as a whole This collection of Noir short stories, is well worth reading for all Noir and Hard Boiled fans Full of grittiness, vengeance, murder and macabre I loved every minute of this book.Individual Breakdown of the Short StoriesSpurs by Tod Robbins 1923 3 5Pastorale by James M Cain 1928 4 5You ll Always Remember Me by Steve Fisher 1938 It is hard to review a collection of short stories do you rate based on the average ratings of all the stories or how you felt of the book as a whole This collection of Noir short stories, is well worth reading for all Noir and Hard Boiled fans Full of grittiness, vengeance, murder and macabre I loved every minute of this book.Individual Breakdown of the Short StoriesSpurs by Tod Robbins 1923 3 5Pastorale by James M Cain 1928 4 5You ll Always Remember Me by Steve Fisher 1938 5 5Gun Crazy by Mackinlay Kantor 1940 4 5Nothing to Worry About by Day Keene 1945 5 5The Homecoming by Dorothy B Hughes 1946 3 5...

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24 August 2017

James Ellroy