{"product_id":"prison-noir-paperback","title":"Prison Noir - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoyce Carol Oates\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Reading the fifteen stories in \u003cem\u003ePrison Noir\u003c\/em\u003e is a sobering experience. Unlike most claimants to that much-abused term, this is the real thing . . . The power of this collection comes from the voices of these authors, voices suffused with rage (\"3 Block From Hell,\" by Bryan K. Palmer), despair (\"There Will Be Seeds for Next Year,\" by Zeke Caligiuri), and madness (\"Shuffle,\" by Christopher M. Stephen).\" --\u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"These are stories that resonate with authenticity and verve and pain and truth. Any collection edited by the National Book Award-winning author Oates (\u003cem\u003ethem; Blonde, Rape: A Love Story\u003c\/em\u003e) deserves attention, but the contributors are deft and confident, and great writers without her imprimatur. . . . Authentic, powerful, visceral, moving, great writing.\" --\u003cem\u003eLibrary Journal, \u003c\/em\u003e Starred Review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAkashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with \u003cem\u003eBrooklyn Noir.\u003c\/em\u003e Each story is set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Brand-new stories by: Christopher M. Stephen, Sin Soracco, Scott Gutches, Eric Boyd, Ali F. Sareini, Stephen Geez, B.M. Dolarman, Zeke Caligiuri, Marco Verdoni, Kenneth R. Brydon, Linda Michelle Marquardt, Andre White, Timothy Pauley, Bryan K. Palmer, and William Van Poyck.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the introduction by Joyce Carol Oates: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"The blood jet is poetry--these words of Sylvia Plath have reverberated through my experience of reading and rereading the fifteen stories of \u003cem\u003ePrison Noir\u003c\/em\u003e. In this case the blood jet is prose, though sometimes poetic prose; if we go a little deeper, in some chilling instances, the blood jet is exactly that: blood.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"For these stories are not \"literary\" exercises--though some are exceptionally well-written by any formalist standards, and artfully structured as narratives; with a single exception the stories are stark, somber, emotionally driven cris de coeur . . . We may feel revulsion for some of the acts described in these stories, but we are likely to feel a startled, even stunned sympathy for the perpetrators. And in several stories, including even murderers' confessions, we are likely to feel a profound and unsettling identification . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"There is no need for fantasy-horror in a place in which matter-of-fact horror is the norm, and mental illness is epidemic. Vividly rendered realism is the predominant literary strategy, as in a riveting documentary film.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoyce Carol Oates\u003c\/b\u003e is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, and the National Book Award. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national best sellers \u003ci\u003eWe Were the Mulvaneys\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBlonde\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Falls\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University, and is the editor of \u003ci\u003eNew Jersey Noir\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePrison Noir\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 260\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.3 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 02, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42700960923711,"sku":"9781617752391","price":19.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/16093e42f6b18e54628187be20819214.webp?v=1765018820","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/prison-noir-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}