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Cape Cod Noir (2011)

by David L. Ulin(Favorite Author)

3.63 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1936070979 (ISBN13: 9781936070978)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Akashic Books

review 1: A strong 3.5.Best: William Hastings' Ten Year Plan, Elyssa East's Second Chance, David L. Ulin's La Jetée, Ben Greenman's Viva Regina, Dave Zeltserman's When Death Shines Bright. Paul Tremblay's Nineteen Snapshots of Dennisport and Kaylie Jones' The Occidental Tourist are both easily 5+ stars and the best of the bunch as far as my tastes are concerned.Could've lived without: Dana Cameron's Ardent, Lizzie Skurnick's Spectacle Pond, Jedediah Berry's Twenty-Eight Scenes For Neglected Guests.
review 2: It's always fun to read about places you know. I know the Cape. I know how it feels to look out your window and see the water, and the boats. I know the sounds of hammering in the spring, and the clink clink clink of the hardware on masts. I know the smells. I'll b... moree the first one to say that, even with attending church with the Kennedy's every summer, I know, unequivically, that the Cape has it's underbelly. Like, they mention the Egg and I in one of my favorite stories, Nineteen shots of Dennisport. I had a roomate that got shot in front of the Egg and I over a girl. It was a through and through in the shoulder. Adam Mansbach's Variations On A Fifty Pound Bale was great, I'd swear I know most of the people in that one. The Falmouth one...my sister is a waitress in a Townie restaurant, great owner, good to his employees, that story Ten Year Plan creeped me out, but those people are the people who populate Falmouth...it isn't all canada mint pink pants and Sperry top siders. A few of the stories I just flat out didn't get, or they left me blank. It's funny that you can read so much murder and mayhem in such a familiar landscape, and still just be jonesin to go be there for a while. To me, there is no place I'd rather be than on that strip of sand and scrub pine, no more beautiful place on earth, at least in the off season when you don't have to deal with a bunch of tourists. less

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