Montana Noir
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A Parade Magazine “Books We Love” Pick
The Big Sky State may seem to lack the shadowy urban mazes traditional to the noir genre. But in Montana, darkness is found in the regions of the heart, driving the desperate and deadly to commit the most heinous of crimes. Here, James Grady and Keir Graff, both Montana natives, masterfully curate this collection of hard-edged Western tales.
Montana Noir includes Eric Heidle’s “Ace in the Hole,” an Edgar Award nominee for Best Short Story, and impressive contributions by David Abrams, Caroline Patterson, Thomas McGuane, Janet Skeslien Charles, Sidner Larson, Yvonne Seng, James Grady, Jamie Ford, Carrie La Seur, Walter Kirn, Gwen Florio, Debra Magpie Earling, and Keir Graff.
“Terrific . . . Montana Noir is one of the high points in Akashic’s long-running and justly celebrated Noir series . . . varying landscapes reflect the darkness within the people who walk the streets or drive the country roads.” —Booklist
“Montana may not have the back alleys so common to noir but it has western justice which can be quick, brutal and final and that is as satisfying as anything found in the urban streets that typically attract the dark beauty of the noir genre.” —New York Journal of Books
“Certain noir standbys prove both malleable and fertile in these 14 new stories . . . If Montana has a dark side, is anywhere safe from noir?” —Kirkus Reviews
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James Grady. (2017). Montana Noir. Akashic Books.
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- “Thoroughly entertaining . . . from desperate writing students in Missoula to a van of itinerant strippers working the Hi-Line paralleling the Canadian border.” —Publishers Weekly
A Parade Magazine “Books We Love” Pick
The Big Sky State may seem to lack the shadowy urban mazes traditional to the noir genre. But in Montana, darkness is found in the regions of the heart, driving the desperate and deadly to commit the most heinous of crimes. Here, James Grady and Keir Graff, both Montana natives, masterfully curate this collection of hard-edged Western tales.
Montana Noir includes Eric Heidle’s “Ace in the Hole,” an Edgar Award nominee for Best Short Story, and impressive contributions by David Abrams, Caroline Patterson, Thomas McGuane, Janet Skeslien Charles, Sidner Larson, Yvonne Seng, James Grady, Jamie Ford, Carrie La Seur, Walter Kirn, Gwen Florio, Debra Magpie Earling, and Keir Graff.
“Terrific . . . Montana Noir is one of the high points in Akashic’s long-running and justly celebrated Noir series . . . varying landscapes reflect the darkness within the people who walk the streets or drive the country roads.” —Booklist
“Montana may not have the back alleys so common to noir but it has western justice which can be quick, brutal and final and that is as satisfying as anything found in the urban streets that typically attract the dark beauty of the noir genre.” —New York Journal of Books
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Thirteen original stories plus a reprint by Thomas McGuane (“Motherlode”) cover the Big Sky State in this thoroughly entertaining Akashic anthology, from desperate writing students in Missoula (Gwen Florio’s “Trailer Trash”) to a van of itinerant strippers working the Hi-Line paralleling the Canadian border (Grady’s “The Road You Take”). Other stories touch on the history of the Gros Ventre tribe and the Flathead Nation (Debra Magpie Earling’s “Custer’s Last Stand” and Sidner Larson’s “Dark Monument”). In Keir Graff’s timely “Red Skies of Montana,” an immigrant from Mumbai is babysitting the site of a ski lodge when arsonists arrive to burn it to the ground. Most of the tales have stronger starts than finishes, and the appearance of a Private Chandler Marlowe (from the Iraq conflict) in David Abrams’s “Red, White, and Butte” is cute enough to be distracting. Yvonne Seng’s “All the Damn Stars in the Sky” probably isn’t true noir, but provides the most fun, with ex-circus performers, abandoned missile silos, and a chopper from Fox News in the mix.
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Long shadows over Big Sky country.What could be a more unlikely breeding ground for noir fiction than Montana, whose wide-open landscapes seem the polar opposite of the mean streets of Los Angeles? Yet certain noir standbys prove both malleable and fertile in these 14 new stories. Among the most successful: Thomas McGuane's cattle inseminator seizes a criminal opportunity his carjacker offers him. Carrie La Seur's rising attorney is offered a chance to make her mark by uncovering some long-lost land applications by homesteading families. Walter Kirn's brutish hero takes condign revenge when his virtual romance goes awry. Gwen Florio traces the intertwined yet hopelessly divergent paths of two old friends when one is accepted and the other rejected by the University of Montana's graduate writing program. In the shortest tale, and perhaps the best, Jamie Ford's female boxer returns home years after she ran away only to discover that her dying mother has left the family spread to the stepfather who first drove off the heroine. The co-editors' two contributions follow an ill-assorted road crew to an inevitable payoff and pit a ski resort manager imported from Mumbai against a pair of firebugs, and David Abrams, Sidner Larson, Yvonne Seng, and Eric Heidle show that some noir setups, like the unwilling return of a native son or daughter who never quite seemed at home in the first place, are likely to flourish wherever they're planted. Caroline Patterson, Janet Skeslien Charles, and Debra Magpie Earling round out a surprisingly distinct and distinctive set of evocations of different Montana localities that make this collection, like a successful package tour, greater than the sum of its parts. If Montana has a dark side, is anywhere safe from noir? Not Accra, Buenos Aires, or Santa Cruz, among the 17 spots next up for this prodigious series.COPYRIGHT(2017) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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Marlowe was dead and that was fine by me. Now that is a terrific first line for the first story in a noir anthology. What follows in David Abrams' Red, White, and Butte is pretty terrific, too, and it demonstrates why Montana Noir is one of the high points in Akashic's long-running (nearly 85 entries) and justly celebrated series. It's not as easy as it sounds to organize a crime anthology around a place because not every story set in a place truly uses that place to support its mood or theme. Editors Grady and Graff's selections, however, are all sharply attuned to their settings and to the ways those varying landscapes reflect the darkness within the people who walk the streets or drive the country roads. The collection is effectively organized by region, circling the state and identifying the specific town where the stories take place. Contributors include the editors, both Montana natives, as well as Thomas McGuane, Walter Kirn, and Debra Magpie Earling.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2017, American Library Association.)
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A Parade Magazine “Books We Love” Pick
The Big Sky State may seem to lack the shadowy urban mazes traditional to the noir genre. But in Montana, darkness is found in the regions of the heart, driving the desperate and deadly to commit the most heinous of crimes. Here, James Grady and Keir Graff, both Montana natives, masterfully curate this collection of hard-edged Western tales.
Montana Noir includes Eric Heidle’s “Ace in the Hole,” an Edgar Award nominee for Best Short Story, and impressive contributions by David Abrams, Caroline Patterson, Thomas McGuane, Janet Skeslien Charles, Sidner Larson, Yvonne Seng, James Grady, Jamie Ford,... - sortTitle
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