Scott Phillips

St. Louis Noir

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Produktbeschreibung

Edited by the best-selling author of The Ice Harvest, St. Louis Noir thickens the Midwest quotient for the Akashic Noir series.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Blackstone Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. August 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 131mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 266g
• ISBN-13: 9781617752988
• ISBN-10: 1617752983
• Artikelnr.: 43897718

Autorenporträt

Scott Phillips was born in Wichita, Kansas, and lived for many years in Paris, France, and Southern California. In the early 2000s he moved to St. Louis, Missouri. He is the author of seven novels and a collection of short stories, and his novel The Ice Harvest was a New York Times Notable Book and was made into a film starring John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton, and Connie Nielsen.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Introduction Part I: The City
"Abandoned Places" by S.L. Coney (Dogtown)
"Deserted Cities of the Heart" by Paul D. Marks (Gateway Arch)
"Blues for the River City" by Colleen J. McElroy (The Ville)
"Fool's Luck" by LaVelle Wilkins-Chinn (Central West End)
"Attrition" by Calvin Wilson (Downtown Newsroom)
"Tracks" by Jason Makansi (The Hill) Part II: A Poetic Interlude
"Four St. Louis Poems" by Michael Castro (Gaslight Square) Part III: The County
"A Paler Shade of Death" by Laura Benedict (Glendale)
"Have You Seen Me?" by Jedidiah Ayres (Frontenac)
"A St. Louis Christmas" by Umar Lee (North County)
"The Pillbox" by Chris Barsanti (Maplewood)
"The Brick Wall" by John Lutz (Interstate 64) Part IV: Across The River
"Tell Them Your Name Is Barbara" by L.J. Smith (East St. Louis, IL)
"One Little Goddamn Thing" by Scott Phillips (Sauget, IL)