Lone Star Noir - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1936070642 ISBN 13 : 9781936070640

Editeur : Akashic Books,U.S., 2010

Synopsis

One can drive around Texas for a long time and never meet J.R. Ewing or Woodrow McCall. The real Texas hides out in towns and cities like those that readers will find in these stories. In that very Texan reality, among the everyday good folks of the state, readers will find the hard-boiled understanding of guns, dope, blood money, greed, hatred and delusion that makes these 14 stories come alive on the page.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

BOBBY BYRD (1942-2022)--publisher, poet, and essayist--was the copublisher of Cinco Puntos Press in El Paso, Texas. In 2005, for their work as publishers and for their involvement in the cultural communities of Mexico and the American Southwest, he and his wife Lee Merrill Byrd received the Lannan Fellowship for Cultural Freedom. As a poet Byrd was the recipient of an NEA Fellowship, the D.H. Lawrence Fellowship awarded by the University of New Mexico, and an International Residency Fellowship (NEA/Instituto de Belles Artes de Mexico). His book of poems, White Panties, Dead Friends and Other Bits and Pieces of Love, received the Southwest Book Award (2008). He was the coeditor, with his son Johnny Byrd, of Lone Star Noir and of the border nonfiction anthology Puro Border: Dispatches, Snapshots, & Graffiti from La Frontera.

JOHNNY BYRD was copublisher of Cinco Puntos Press in El Paso, Texas, and coeditor of Lone Star Noir. As a Spanish-to-English translator, his credits include The Festival of the Bones/El Festival de las Calaveras: The Little Bitty Book for the Day of the Dead by Luis San Martin, and the novel Out of Their Minds: The Incredible and (Sometimes) Sad Story of Ramon and Cornelio by Luis Humberto Crosthwaite. Byrd is also a freelance essayist, writing articles for online publications about culture and music.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Akashic Books,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1936070642
• ISBN 13: 9781936070640
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Éditeur: Byrd Bobby, Byrd John William
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