{"product_id":"providence-noir-paperback","title":"Providence Noir - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnn Hood\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Even Providence's signature public art has a dark side in \u003cem\u003eProvidence Noir\u003c\/em\u003e (Akashic), which includes a story called \u003cem\u003eWaterFire's Smell Tonight\u003c\/em\u003e by Pablo Rodriguez. Each tale in this anthology edited by Ann Hood is set in a different part of the city. Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout's story takes place at Trinity Repertory Company. Thomas Cobb, whose novel \u003cem\u003eCrazy Heart\u003c\/em\u003e was made into a movie with Jeff Bridges, tees up at Triggs Memorial Golf Course, and \u003cem\u003eDumb and Dumber\u003c\/em\u003e co-writer and co-director Peter Farrelly, a graduate of Providence College, sets his story in the Elmhurst neighborhood, near his old college stomping grounds.\" \u003cem\u003e--Boston Globe\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Providence, of course, has a history of crime, the mob, corruption and other goodies. In this collection of 15 stories . . . we are given a darkly hued tour of the city in all its nooks and crannies by such excellent writers as Hood herself, John Searles, Bruce DeSilva, Peter Farrelly, Elizabeth Strout, Hester Kaplan and others, each with their own style, tone and sly approach that will keep you reading, waiting for the sudden murder, the end of troubled relationships, the discovery of bones. . . . [A] wonderful collection.\" --\u003cem\u003eProvidence Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e--Peter Farrelly's story \u003cem\u003eThe Saturday Night Before Easter Sunday\u003c\/em\u003e was nominated for an Edgar Award for Best Short Story.\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 Featuring brand-new stories by: John Searles, Elizabeth Strout, Taylor M. Polites, Hester Kaplan, Robert Leuci, Amity Gaige, Peter Farrelly, Pablo Rodriguez, Bruce DeSilva, Marie Myung-Ok Lee, Luanne Rice, Dawn Raffel, Thomas Cobb, LaShonda Katrice Barnett, and Ann Hood.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Anyone who has spent time in Providence, Rhode Island, knows that lurking in the shadows are many sinister noir elements and characters. The city is ripe for this volume, and Akashic is proud to have recruited the amazing Ann Hood as editor. The impressive contributor list conveys the caliber of \u003cem\u003eProvidence Noir\u003c\/em\u003e, which joins \u003cem\u003eCape Cod Noir, Boston Noir\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eBoston Noir 2: The Classics\u003c\/em\u003e in sketching a dark and alternative portrait of these New England locales.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e From the introduction by Ann Hood: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Providence was founded in 1636 by a rogue named Roger Williams. Williams escaped here when Massachusetts was ready to deport him back to England. In the almost four hundred years since, we've become infamous for all sorts of crimes and misdemeanors, including serving as home base for the Patriarca crime family for decades. My very own Uncle Eddie--I can hear Mama Rose screaming at me: 'He wasn't a blood relative! He was related through marriage!'--was gunned down in the Silver Lake section of town in 1964, just a year after he drove me in his white Cadillac convertible in a parade as the newly crowned Little Miss Natick. The writer Geoffrey Wolff told me that once he went to a barber in Princeton, New Jersey and the barber asked him where he was from. 'Providence, ' Wolff told him. The barber put down his scissors, raised his hands in the air, and said, 'Providence? Don't shoot!'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"I've asked fourteen of my favorite writers to contribute short stories to \u003cem\u003eProvidence Noir\u003c\/em\u003e. We have stories to make you shiver, stories to make you think, stories that will show you my beautiful, noirish city in a way it's never been highlighted before.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnn Hood\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the best-selling novels \u003ci\u003eThe Obituary Writer\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Knitting Circle\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSomewhere Off the Coast of Maine\u003c\/i\u003e. Her memoir \u003ci\u003eComfort: A Journey Through Grief\u003c\/i\u003e was a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Editors' Choice and chosen as one of the top ten nonfiction books of 2008 by \u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e. Her essays and short stories have appeared regularly in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAtlantic Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTin House\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eParis Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBon App騁it\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNational Geographic Traveler\u003c\/i\u003e, and many other newspapers and magazines. Hood has won two Pushcart Prizes, the Paul Bowles Prize in Short Fiction, and her work has been selected for inclusion in three volumes of the \u003ci\u003eBest American Writing\u003c\/i\u003e anthology series. Hood was born in West Warwick, Rhode Island, and currently lives in Providence, Rhode Island. She is the editor of \u003ci\u003eProvidence Noir\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.2 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 02, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42700961415231,"sku":"9781617753527","price":23.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/38dca500950c44bfe7303d1349edb51d.webp?v=1765018822","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/providence-noir-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}