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    Vancouver Noir

    By Akashic Books

    4.5/5

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    About this ebook

  • The Canadian Noir Series titles, Montreal & Toronto have done very well for us and we're delighted to finally add another major Canadian city to the series.
  • Features brand-new stories by: Linda L. Richards, Timothy Taylor, Sheena Kamal, Robin Spano, Carleigh Baker, Sam Wiebe, Dietrich Kalteis, Nathan Ripley, Yasuko Thanh, Kristi Charish, Don English, Nick Mamatas, S.G. Wong, and R.M. Greenaway.
  • The following contributors are based domestically: Linda L. Richards (splits time between Paso Robles, CA, Phoenix, AZ, and Vancouver, BC).
  • The editor, Sam Wiebe, has won an Arthur Ellis Award, the Kobo Emerging Writers Prize, and was a Vancouver Public Library Writer in Residence.
  • Several of the contributors are award-winning authors (Linda L. Richards, Dietrich Kalteis, R.M. Greenaway, S.G. Wong, etc.)
  • We are also making this title available in a simultaneous POD/NONRETURNABLE hardcover edition.
    • LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAkashic Books
    Release dateNov 6, 2018
    ISBN9781617756849
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    • 4/5
      A really enjoyable collection of noir stories, set in the greater Vancouver BC area. As with all books in the Akashic "Noir" series, the stories are varied enough to be interesting and similar enough to create a common feeling of dark underbelly.
    • 3/5
      I read this for a book club but it was way too dark for me.
    • 5/5
      I have read a number of the Noir series, and Vancouver Noir may well be my favorite. Vancouver's dark and rainy environment lends perfectly to a noir landscape. Author Dennis Lehane describes noir as "working class tragedy", and that is Vanouver Noir in a nutshell. You can almost feel the salt water spray from the wild and raging Pacific. In your mind's eye, you can see the ominous coastal mountain range. From Whole Foods shopping, Coach diaper bag toting up-scale moms to strung out street walkers, it's all here in gloriously depressing noir-ish delight.
    • 5/5
      This is my favorite of all of the NOIR anthologies from Akashic I've read so far. Pretty much 98% of the book was fantastic. Only one or two of the stories were skimmable and that's pretty good to me. First story by Linda L. Richards seized on right off the bat. Supremely outstanding. Actually the introduction was the grabber. It invited the reader to go beyond what is shown in the television and movies that are filmed in what looks to be an idyllic setting. Grime and grit, homelessness, poverty, hanging by the skin of the teeth, crime. The book will set the story straight.Sheena Kamal's story was fab, in particular the setup of each section, How to Give a Speech....perfection.Robin Spano's story is sneakily intriguing.Nathan Ripley's story reminded me of my favorite Parker Posey movie, Party Girl.Kristi Charish's is a superbly edgy police procedural.Don English has two voices to tell his tale, as does R. M. Greenway's story. Fantastic the both.I highly enjoyed S. G. Wong's spooky story.I can definitely recommend this particularly outstanding anthology.
    • 5/5
      Sam Wiebe and his fellow contributors give us a stellar entry into the Akashic Noir series. You don't normally think of noir when you think of Vancouver, but you will after reading this book. I dare say it's one of my favorite volumes in the series with Linda L. Richards' "Terminal City" being one of my favorite stories in the series. It's worth the cover price for that story alone and all the others are icing. Highly recommended.
    • 4/5
      I'm not sure there's anything more to say about the Akashic noir series. Every single volume has been brilliant. They're solid throughout. It's not a case of a few outstanding stories boost the bad ones enough that the volume gets a decent rating. No, instead even the worst stories are good while the good stories are excellent. There was one thing that stood out more in the Vancouver entry more than the past and I didn't find it a problem necessarily, it just seemed like it was toeing the line of crossing into something other than noir and that was two or three stories going into magic or mysticism. Even so, they were great reads too. I didn't find this collection as dark as the Sao Paulo noir I read earlier this year. Maybe even the criminal element is Canada is more polite than the rest of the world?
    • 4/5
      VANCOUVER NOIR is edited by Sam Wiebe. It is an anthology of 14 stories by 14 different authors that take place in 14 different locations in and around the city of Vancouver, British Columbia. I have read many of the titles in this noir series published by Akashic Books and enjoyed them all. I received this title as part of LibraryThing’s Early Review Giveaway in exchange for an unbiased review. (Thank you.)I like that the format is the same in all the titles (all the titles that I have read). There is a dark, sepia-toned cover; a dynamite area map with story locations marked by body silhouettes; a Table of Contents; an Introduction by the editor(s); and an About the Contributors section.I like the familiarity; the thought that I can open the door and sit right down in my favorite chair.The stories are true noir - a genre of crime fiction characterized by cynicism, fatalism and moral ambiguity. Good noir adjectives are bleak, pessimistic, fatalistic, dark, brooding, raw. One of my personal favorite noir adjectives is selfish. Dennis Lehane calls noir - “working-class tragedy”. Our editor, Sam Wiebe, writes that noir is “bad shit happening to people much like ourselves”.A true anthology - each story in the anthology is different, interesting, twisted, clever writing.The Introduction is always one of my favorite parts of the anthology. The editor(s) give the reader a ‘feel’ for the city or area. In VANCOUVER NOIR, I discover that Vancouver is a colonial outpost on the unceded territory of three First Nations: the Musqueam; the Squamish and the Tsleil-Waututh. Vancouver is one of North America’s largest immigration hubs and includes one of the oldest Chinatowns. Land speculation and a lack of low-income housing have created a real estate crisis.Stories and Authors include: “Terminal City” by Linda L. Richards (real noir)“Saturna Island” by Timothy Taylor “You know it’s real when it ends in blood”.“Eight game-changing tips on public speaking” by Sheena Kamal“The perfect playgroup” by Robin Spano (nightmares for me)“The midden” by Carleigh Baker“Wonderful life” by Sam Wiebe“Bottom Dollar” by Dietrich Kalteis (liked that one)“The Landecker Party” by Nathan Ripley (very noir)“Burned” by Yasuko Thanh“The demon of Steveston” by Kristi Charish (very macabre)“Stiches” by Don English“The one who walks with a limp” by Nick Mamatas“Survivors’ pension” by S.G. Wong“The threshold” by R.M. GreenawayI think you will enjoy this title and this Noir series by Akashic Books.
    • 5/5
      You can never go wrong with the Noir series. Each story was unique but felt as if they belonged to the same book. Even when it pushed the traditional noir field by adding a little other worldly elements it still worked. I won't pick out one story over any other- though the last story is a good read and...ah just read it.