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New Orleans Noir
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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New Orleans Noir
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| Authors and Contributors |
Edited by Julie Smith
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| Series | Akashic Noir |
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:270 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 209,Width 133 |
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| Category/Genre | Crime and mystery |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9781933354248
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| Classifications | Dewey:FIC |
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Akashic Books,U.S.
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| Imprint |
Akashic Books,U.S.
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| Publication Date |
17 May 2007 |
| Publication Country |
United States
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Description
New Orleans is a third world country in itself, a Latin, African, European (and often amoral) culture trapped in a Puritan nation. New Orleans Noir is a sparkling collection of tales exploring the city's wasted, gutted neighbourhoods, its outwardly gleaming sliver by the river', its still raunchy French Quarter and other hoods so far from the Quarter they might as well be on another continent. It also looks back into the past, from that recent innocent time known as 'pre-K' to the mid-19th century, the other time the city was mostly swampland.'
Author Biography
Julie Smith is the author of two detective series set in New Orleans, and an Edgar Award winner. A former reporter for the New Orleans Times-Picayune and the San Francisco Chronicle, she lives in the Faubourg Marigny section of New Orleans, which is much funkier than it sounds like.
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