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CAPE COD NOIRedited by David L. Ulin Mystery/Fiction Anthology | A Trade Paperback Original
Malice and mayhem simmer beneath the surface of one of America's favorite vacation areas.
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Featuring brand-new stories by: David L. Ulin, Ben Greenman, Lizzie Skurnick, Dana Cameron, Jedediah Berry, Paul Tremblay, Seth Greenland, Kaylie Jones, Adam Mansbach, Elyssa East, Fred G. Leebron, William Hastings, and Dave Zeltserman.
Launched with the summer '04 award-winning best seller Brooklyn Noir, Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies. Each book is comprised of all-new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the geographical area of the book.
"Youthful alienation and despair dominate the 13 stories in Akashic's noir volume devoted to Cape Cod. [It] will satisfy those with a hankering for a taste of the dark side."
"A book full of cries in the dark, heavy drinking in the thin gray light of winter, and other dark poses. In other words, the stories sneak in the back screen door of those summer cottages after Labor Day, after all the tourists have gone home and Cape Codders of the authors' imagination drop their masks and their guards. It's a fun read, a little like tracing the shoreline of a not-quite-familiar coast."
"David L. Ulin has put together a malicious collection of short stories that will stay with you long after you return home safe."
Los Angeles Times book critic David L. Ulin has been vacationing in Cape Cod every summer since he was a boy. He knows the terrain inside out; enough to identify the squalid underbelly of this allegedly idyllic location. His editing prowess is a perfect match for this fine volume.
FROM THE INTRODUCTION, BY DAVID L. ULIN: "For me, Cape Cod is a repository of memory: forty summers in the same house will do that to you. But it is also a landscape of hidden tensions, which rise up when we least anticipate. In part, this has to do with social aspiration, which is one of the things that brought my family, like many others, to the Cape. In part, it has to do with social division, which has been a factor since at least the end of the nineteenth century, when then summer trade began. There are lines here, lines that get crossed and lines that never get crossed, the kinds of lines that form the web of noir. Call it what you want--summer and smoke is how I think of it--but thatÕs the Cape Cod at the center of this book."
David L. Ulin is a book critic for the Los Angeles Times. From 2005 to 2010, he was the paper's book editor. He is the author of The Myth of Solid Ground: Earthquakes, Prediction, and the Fault Line Between Reason and Faith, and the editor of Another City: Writing from Los Angeles and Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology, which won a 2002 California Book Award. He has written for the Atlantic Monthly, the Nation, the New York Times Book Review, and National Public Radio's All Things Considered. He teaches in the low residency MFA in Creative Writing Program at the University of California, Riverside's Palm Desert Graduate Center, and was a visiting professor in the Literary Journalism program at the University of California, Irvine in the spring of 2010. His latest book, The Lost Art of Reading, was published in November 2010.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
PART I: OUT OF SEASON
PART II: SUMMER PEOPLE
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PART III: END OF THE LINE Ê
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