Noir Ain't the Half of It - Honig, Stephen M.
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Take an eclectic journey through short stories culled from three decades of exploring a universe of people, of life's anomalies, of snippets from the practice of law, with the dark overtones of growing up in Brooklyn, New York during a time of cultural upheaval at the end of the War. Explore the writer's dreams, from murder to a haunted golf course in Mexico. Brooklyn in the 40s and 50s was peopled with crime bosses, card sharks, professional gamblers and those with a panoply of obsessions. End on the dead-end street of noir, where people you do not want to meet will share their darkness with you. A dissection of the mundane and of the bizarre awaits.…mehr

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Take an eclectic journey through short stories culled from three decades of exploring a universe of people, of life's anomalies, of snippets from the practice of law, with the dark overtones of growing up in Brooklyn, New York during a time of cultural upheaval at the end of the War. Explore the writer's dreams, from murder to a haunted golf course in Mexico. Brooklyn in the 40s and 50s was peopled with crime bosses, card sharks, professional gamblers and those with a panoply of obsessions. End on the dead-end street of noir, where people you do not want to meet will share their darkness with you. A dissection of the mundane and of the bizarre awaits.
Autorenporträt
Stephen M. Honig is a practicing corporate attorney in Boston, Massachusetts. Author of five prior works of poetry, a collection of short stories and an adventure novel, he is a director of the New England Poetry Club, hosts poetry readings on behalf of the Club, is himself a reader of his poetry in various venues, and has often been published in Ibbetson Street (the poetry magazine of Ibbetson Press based in Somerville, Massachusetts). He has published five collections of poetry: "Messing Around with Words", "Rail Head", "Obligatory COVID Chapbook", "Laertes in America - Collected Poetry 2018-2020", and "Burn-Out". Also published are a collection of short stories: "Noir Ain't the Half of It", and a novel: "The Event". A graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, Mr. Honig lives with his wife, Laura Unflat, in Newton, Massachusetts. Among his four children and two grandchildren, only one shows a poetic avocation, although all six have poetic dispositions.