"In this novel of desire and doom, with its collision of voices and a femme fatale who dresses in the dreams of everyone around her, Rathke is the best kind of possessed writer--the kind who has the courage of his possession, whose exorcised words exist in defiance of their author."
--Steve Erickson, author of Zeroville
Noir: A Love Story is an oral history sparked by a woman burning alive in a crowded street and a man hanging lifeless from an ancient tree. Twenty-six narrators attempt to unravel and reveal the life and love of these two. From modern America to an ancient culture lost within it, a cacophony of men and women who never knew these two—and the few that did—tell the story of lives transformed, of a town that exists nowhere, and the beating heart of a dream carried in bleeding palms.
Genre: Literary Fiction
--Steve Erickson, author of Zeroville
Noir: A Love Story is an oral history sparked by a woman burning alive in a crowded street and a man hanging lifeless from an ancient tree. Twenty-six narrators attempt to unravel and reveal the life and love of these two. From modern America to an ancient culture lost within it, a cacophony of men and women who never knew these two—and the few that did—tell the story of lives transformed, of a town that exists nowhere, and the beating heart of a dream carried in bleeding palms.
Genre: Literary Fiction
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