Re: RARA-AVIS: North Country Noirs

From: Nathan Cain ( IndieCrime@gmail.com)
Date: 09 Mar 2008


Anthony Neil Smith's forthcoming Yellow Medicine, a bad cop noir, is set in rural Minnesota. I'm about halfway through and I'm enjoying it.

On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 12:06 PM, decastro3 < decastro3@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> --- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, harry.lerner@... wrote:
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> > I believe Michael Chabon's Alaskan set THE YIDDISH POLICEMAN'S UNION
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> This is a book I expect to be reading soon. I really like Chabon's
> prose...but this is the first I've heard this book labeled a noir. (I
> know, I know this is open for interpretation) I just wasn't even
> really expecting it to be all that hard-boiled let alone noir. Now,
> I'm even more interested in reading it :)
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