Long Island Noir

Herausgeber: Jones, Kaylie

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Stories covering Long Island's extremes, from the comfortably rich, to the horribly poor, and all darkness between.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Blackstone Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 136mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 257g
• ISBN-13: 9781617750625
• ISBN-10: 161775062X
• Artikelnr.: 34391997

Autorenporträt

Kaylie Jones moved to Sagaponack in 1975, where her family continued to live for more than thirty years. She is the author of five novels, including A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries, and the memoir Lies My Mother Never Told Me. She teaches in the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton, and in the Wilkes University low-residency MFA program in professional writing.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I: Family Values
"Gateway to the Stars" by Matthew McGevna (Mastic Beach)
"Thy Shiny Car in the Night" by Nick Mamatas (Northport)
"Home Invasion" by Kaylie Jones (Wainscott)
"Anjali's America" by Qanta Ahmed (Garden City)
Part II: hitting it big
"A Starr Burns Bright" by Charles Salzberg (Long Beach)
"Mastermind" by Reed Farrel Coleman (Selden)
"Seven Eleven" by Tim McLoughlin (Wantagh)
"Past President" by Sarah Weinman (Great Neck)
Part III: Love and Other Horrors
"Boob Noir" by Jules Feiffer (Southampton)
"Summer Love" by JZ Holden (Sagaponack)
"Ending in Paumanok" by Richie Narvaez (Stony Brook)
"Terror" by Sheila Kohler (Amagansett)
"Contents of House" by Jane Ciabattari (Sag Harbor)
Part IV: American Dreamers
"Semiconscious" by Steven Wishnia (Lake Ronkonkoma)
"Blood Drive" by Kenneth Wishnia (Port Jefferson Station)
"Jabo's" by Amani Scipio (Bridgehampton)
"Snow Job" by Tim Tomlinson (Wading River)