Orange County Noir

      46 ADA
      16.00 USD

      You may be disturbed—or possibly titillated—to discover what can happen once you cross the Orange Curtain . . .

      Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each story is set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book.

      Brand-new stories by: Susan Straight, Robert S. Levinson, Rob Roberge, Nathan Walpow, Barbara DeMarco-Barrett, Dan Duling, Mary Castillo, Lawrence Maddox, Dick Lochte, Robert Ward, Gary Phillips, Gordon McAlpine, Martin J. Smith, and Patricia McFall, with a foreword by T. Jefferson Parker.

      Description

      Orange County brings to mind McMansion housing tracts; massive shopping centers with their own zip codes where Pilates classes are run like boot camp and real-estate values are discussed at your weekly colonic; and ice-cream parlors on Main Street, U.S.A., side by side with pho shops and taquerías. Los Angeles has been and continues to be explored as the place where noir, if it wasn’t spawned there, sure as hell flowered. But what about its neighbor to the south? What secrets do Orange County’s denizens have to tell . . . or hide?

      This volume, like coming in from a sudden storm and then being gripped by a heavy riff from Bird’s horn, takes you on a hard-boiled tour behind the Orange Curtain. Among those you’ll meet are a reclusive rock star who has lived way too long in his twisted head, a crooked judge who uses the court for illicit means, a cab driver prowling the streets with more than the ticking meter on his mind. In Orange County Noir, cultures clash, housewives want more than the perfect grout cleaner, and nobody is exactly who they seem to be.”

      Numbered eBooks: 300

      Number of Unique Covers: 1

      Number of 1:1 Covers: 0

      Orange County Noir

      1 Unique Designs
      x 300 Numbered eBooks
      = 300 NFT eBooks
      eBook Numbers 0 - 299
      (100.00% of Supply)

      Details

      Publisher : Akashic Books, Ltd

      First Publication Date : 2010

      Author : Gary Phillips (Editor)

      Genres: Anthology, Crime Fiction, Fiction, Mystery, Noir Fiction, Short Story

      Language : English

      Word Count : 80,000

      Format : DEA (Decentralized Encrypted Asset)

      Read On : Book.io eReader dApp

      Cover Art : Includes 4K hi-resolution book cover

      Cardano Retail Price : 46 ADA

      Cardano Policy ID : df37bb007aaf867a9adc53dc48b626903f517e3cb41694d47fb34256

      Author Info

      Gary Phillips (Editor)

      Gary Phillips has published novels, comics, and short stories, and edited numerous anthologies. Violent Spring, first published in 1994, was named one of the essential crime novels of Los Angeles. Culprits, a linked anthology he coedited, has been optioned as a British miniseries, and he was a staff writer on FX’s Snowfall about crack and the CIA in 1980s South Central, where he grew up. He is the editor of Orange County Noir, and the coeditor of The Cocaine Chronicles. He has contribute… Read More