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Cape Cod Noir

Malice and mayhem simmer beneath the surface of one of America’s favorite vacation areas.

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What people are saying…

“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.”
—Publishers Weekly

“David L. Ulin has put together a malicious collection of short stories that will stay with you long after you return home safe.”
—The Cult: The Official Chuck Palahniuk Website

Description

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 city of the book.

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 that’s the Cape Cod at the center of this book.”

Table of Contents

Introduction

Part I: Out of Season
“Ten-Year Plan,” William Hastings (Falmouth)
“Second Chance,” Elyssa East (Buzzards Bay)
“Ardent,” Dana Cameron (Eastham)
“Nineteen Snapshots of Dennisport,” Paul Tremblay (Dennisport)
“Variations on a Fifty-Pound Bale,” Adam Mansbach (Martha’s Vineyard)

Part II: Summer People
“Bad Night in Hyannisport,” Seth Greenland (Hyannisport)
“Spectacle Pond,” Lizzie Skurnick (Wellfleet)
“La Jetee,” David L. Ulin (Harwichport)
“The Occidental Tourist,” Kaylie Jones (Dennis)

Part III: End of the Line
“The Exchange Student,” Fred G. Leebron (Provincetown)
“Viva Regina,” Ben Greenman(Woods Hole)
“When Death Shines Bright,” Dave Zeltserman (Sandwich)
“Twenty-Eight Scenes for Neglected Guests,” Jedediah Berry (Yarmouth)