Men from Boys

by JohnHarvey (Editor)

• New

  Paperback
  2005

  $18.31

• Used

  Paperback
  2004

  $3.25

  Little is perfect for the men in these seventeen crime stories and nothing is straightforward. The worlds they inhabit are as different as a deprived London housing estate and a rundown jazz joint in Manhattan, but each of them is striving to determine what is right, what will give them dignity, what will earn them self-respect. Some succeed. Others fail. In this acclaimed collection of stories, John Harvey has gathered together some of the very best names in contemporary crime writing. Together these writers answer what it is to be a father, a son, a man. Authors are: Mark Billingham, Lawrence Block, Michael Connelly, Jeffery Deaver, John Harvey, Reginald Hill. Bill James, Dennis Lehane, Bill Moody, George P. Pelecanos, Peter Robinson, James Sallis, John Straley, Brian Thompson, Don Winslow, Daniel Woodrell, and a novella by Andrew Coburn.

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  Hardcover
  2003

  $12.40

  What does it mean to be a father? What does it mean to be a son? What does it mean to be a man? Gathered together in this anthology are 16 short stories and a novella from some of the masters of crime fiction who answer these questions in myriad ways. These are worlds that are instantly recognizable and believable yet as widely apart as a deprived London housing estate and the trenches of the First World War, the claustrophobia of a late-night back room poker game or a rundown jazz joint in Manhattan and the slow but irrevocable decay of the small New England town. Again and again - but never two ways the same - the people who inhabit these stories are having to determine what is right, what will give them dignity, what will earn them self-respect. Authors include Lawrence Block, Michael Connelly, Jeffrey Deaver, Dennis Lehane, Don Winslow and many more.