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Austin noir / edited by Hopeton Hay, Scott Montgomery, and Molly Odintz.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Akashic noir seriesPublisher: Brooklyn, New York : Akashic Books, [2023]Description: 289 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781636140896
  • 1636140890
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
The Pink Monkey / Gabrino Iglesias -- Stunts / Ace Atkins -- Reflections / Amanda Moore -- The good neighbor / Jeff Abbott -- A thousand bats on an Austin night / Scott Montgomery -- Rush hour / Richard Z. Santos -- Sapphire blue / Alexandra Burt -- Charles Bronson / Lee Thomas -- Saving / Miriam Kuznets -- A time and place / Jacob Grovey -- The foundation / Chaitali Sen -- Michael's perfect penis / Molly Odintz -- Stitches / Amy Gentry -- Bangface vs. Cleaning Solutions, LLC / Andrew Hilbert.
Summary: Austin joins Dallas and Houston in Akashic's deep dive into the Lone Star State's darkest dimensions Featuring brand-new stories Gabino Iglesias, Ace Atkins, Amanda Moore, Jeff Abbott, Scott Montgomery, Richard Z. Santos, Alexandra Burt, Lee Thomas, Miriam Kuznets, Jacob Grovey, Chaitali Sen, Molly Odintz, Amy Gentry, and Andrew Hilbert. From the editors' "You've probably heard of Austin. You may have been here for South by Southwest. Your best friend may have recently relocated here from California. You might have thought about moving here yourself, then decided it wasn't worth it to live in Texas. You may have moved to Austin decades ago. You may even have been born and raised in Austin, and now you're on the outskirts of San Antonio or (god forbid) Waco because you can't afford to buy a house anywhere else. Or you may be living in a shiny new building downtown, watching the final stages of a sleepy town's transformation into modern metropolis. One thing you'll hear from almost any Austin it was better when they got here..."As the city expands, construction never stops, struggling futilely to keep up with new demand. The running joke is that the city bird is the crane. Rents and property values keep climbing. We fear becoming Dallas...The writers contributing to this collection represent a kaleidoscopic view of the city--not just in where they set the stories, but in their different social, economic, and cultural perspectives." -- Goodreads.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Mystery HAY, HOPETON Available 33111011269491
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Austin joins Dallas and Houston in Akashic's deep dive into the Lone Star State's darkest dimensions.

"Seems like everybody comes to Austin, sooner or later, and now the Akashic Books series of original noir anthologies has finally arrived, its freshly inked pages strewn with shadows and ill intent." -- Austin Chronicle

From the editors' introduction:

"You've probably heard of Austin. You may have been here for South by Southwest. Your best friend may have recently relocated here from California. You might have thought about moving here yourself, then decided it wasn't worth it to live in Texas. You may have moved to Austin decades ago. You may even have been born and raised in Austin, and now you're on the outskirts of San Antonio or (God forbid) Waco because you can't afford to buy a house anywhere else. Or you may be living in a shiny new building downtown, watching the final stages of a sleepy town's transformation into modern metropolis. One thing you'll hear from almost any Austin resident: it was better when they got here . . .

"As the city expands, construction never stops, struggling futilely to keep up with new demand. The running joke is that the city bird is the crane. Rents and property values keep climbing. We fear becoming Dallas . . . The writers contributing to this collection represent a kaleidoscopic view of the city--not just in where they set the stories, but in their different social, economic, and cultural perspectives."

Featuring brand-new stories by: Gabino Iglesias, Ace Atkins, Amanda Moore, Jeff Abbott, Scott Montgomery, Richard Z. Santos, Alexandra Burt, Lee Thomas, Miriam Kuznets, Jacob Grovey, Chaitali Sen, Molly Odintz, Amy Gentry, and Andrew Hilbert.


The Pink Monkey / Gabrino Iglesias -- Stunts / Ace Atkins -- Reflections / Amanda Moore -- The good neighbor / Jeff Abbott -- A thousand bats on an Austin night / Scott Montgomery -- Rush hour / Richard Z. Santos -- Sapphire blue / Alexandra Burt -- Charles Bronson / Lee Thomas -- Saving / Miriam Kuznets -- A time and place / Jacob Grovey -- The foundation / Chaitali Sen -- Michael's perfect penis / Molly Odintz -- Stitches / Amy Gentry -- Bangface vs. Cleaning Solutions, LLC / Andrew Hilbert.

Austin joins Dallas and Houston in Akashic's deep dive into the Lone Star State's darkest dimensions Featuring brand-new stories Gabino Iglesias, Ace Atkins, Amanda Moore, Jeff Abbott, Scott Montgomery, Richard Z. Santos, Alexandra Burt, Lee Thomas, Miriam Kuznets, Jacob Grovey, Chaitali Sen, Molly Odintz, Amy Gentry, and Andrew Hilbert. From the editors' "You've probably heard of Austin. You may have been here for South by Southwest. Your best friend may have recently relocated here from California. You might have thought about moving here yourself, then decided it wasn't worth it to live in Texas. You may have moved to Austin decades ago. You may even have been born and raised in Austin, and now you're on the outskirts of San Antonio or (god forbid) Waco because you can't afford to buy a house anywhere else. Or you may be living in a shiny new building downtown, watching the final stages of a sleepy town's transformation into modern metropolis. One thing you'll hear from almost any Austin it was better when they got here..."As the city expands, construction never stops, struggling futilely to keep up with new demand. The running joke is that the city bird is the crane. Rents and property values keep climbing. We fear becoming Dallas...The writers contributing to this collection represent a kaleidoscopic view of the city--not just in where they set the stories, but in their different social, economic, and cultural perspectives." -- Goodreads.

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