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Memphis Noir
- Narrated by: Brian Sutherland, Jonathan Davis, Mirron Willis, Vikas Adam, Allyson Johnson, Kevin T. Collins, Peter Berkrot
- Series: Akashic Books: Noir
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Release date: 05-11-16
- Language: English
- Publisher: Audible Studios
- Whispersync for Voice-ready
Regular price: $19.95
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A city equal parts darkness and hope. A scarred city. An often violent one. But a resilient city, too.
That's our Memphis.
Like many cities we have a namesake - in Egypt, Men-nefer became Menfe became Memphis, enduring and beautiful, on the banks of the Nile. Centuries later, another continent, another people, another river: Memphis, Tennessee, the soul of the Mississippi Delta, was formed. We are a place born of history, inhabited as much by memory as by the living - the past and present inextricably and inescapably linked....
Memphis is marvels and misfits - two-faced and unabashedly so. We are Memphis, and this is our noir.
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