James Grady was born and raised in Shelby, Montana. His first novel, Six Days of the Condor, became the iconic movie starring Robert Redford.Keir Graff was born and raised in Missoula, Montana. He is the author of four novels for adults (most recently The Price of Liberty), and two novels for middle-graders. Graff now lives in Chicago, where he is the executive editor of Booklist.
These well-told tales offer an engrossing snapshot of Montana's
fabled literary landscape. Every one, a worthy read.
--Lively TimesThe stories represent Montana in all its variety: the
people; the land; the weather and its physical and psychological
effects; social, cultural, and political issues; sexism and racism;
Native American vs. White conflicts; urban vs. rural concerns; and
more...If the intent of the Akashic Noir series is to capture the
uniquely dark spirit of a place, then Montana Noir certainly
succeeds.
--Popular Culture Association/Mystery & Detective FictionThirteen
original stories plus a reprint by Thomas McGuane cover the Big Sky
State in this thoroughly entertaining Akashic anthology, from
desperate writing students in Missoula to a van of itinerant
strippers working the Hi-Line paralleling the Canadian border.
--Publishers Weekly'Grit' is the best description of
the collection of short stories compiled in Montana Noir
because every single story has a thick skin of brutality,
skeeviness, violence and just a dash of horror that makes the
collection exceptionally good...An impressive set of works from a
variety of writers that deserves to be read by many, especially
those who want to lose themselves in the darkness of a Montana
winter night.
--MissoulanIf Montana Noir--the new short
fiction anthology from Akashic Books released Sept. 5--seeks to
teach us anything, perhaps it's that the Big Sky has always been
home to its share of dirty deeds.
--Missoula IndepdendentFrom Polson to Glendive, Shelby
to downtown Billings, the book ties together many of the state's
best writers with stories from the seedier side of life.
--Great Falls TribuneWho would have imagined that
murder and mayhem could be so much fun? In Montana Noir, a
new collection of hardboiled short stories, 14 writers jump with
evident joy into tales teeming with dead bodies, guns, strippers,
booze, meth, weed and problematic stores of cash. And they take us
to unexpected places, from the rough parts of Great Falls to a
depressing corner of Billings Heights, from the loneliest stretches
of the Hi-Line's Highway 2 to the vomit-stained sidewalk in front
of the Party Palace in Butte.
--Last Best NewsMontana may not have the back
alleys so common to noir but it has western justice which can be
quick, brutal and final and that is as satisfying as anything found
in the urban streets that typically attract the dark beauty of the
noir genre.
--New York Journal of BooksMontana Noir reveals that
even Big Sky Country works just fine as a landscape for downbeats
and deadbeats, cynics and gamblers, posers and schemers. This is a
diverse collection with many hits...Noir isn't confined to a place.
It's a state of being. It follows humanity wherever humanity
wanders. And Montana Noir gives the genre more
definition.
--Don't Need a Diagram (Mark Stevens blog)
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