John Harvey (ed.): Men from Boys (USA 2005)

From the Publisher:
What actions must a boy take to become a man? One might use a razor to clear his first growth of beard, while another could employ it as a weapon -- both actions might be a fitting rite of passage.

In these dazzling works of fiction, seventeen masters of crime and suspense explore what it means to be a son, what it means to be a father, what it means to be a man. Spanning continents and decades, the stories are set in interconnected worlds both instantly recognizable and astonishingly believable, from long stretches on a dry Texas highway to a bleak London alley, from the claustrophobic confines of an after-hours backroom poker game to a rundown jazz joint in Manhattan.

Amid card sharks, revolvers, and shallow graves, the characters who inhabit these stories strive to discover what is right, what will give them dignity, what will earn them respect. Whether at the age of ten or thirty-five, all will come face-to-face with a situation that will brutally separate the men from the boys.

John Harvey (ed.): Men from Boys. Dark Alley, ISBN: 0060762853 (May, 2005), 429 p., $14.99.

John Harvey (ed.): Men from Boys (UK 2004)

From the Publisher:
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.

John Harvey (ed.): Men from Boys. Arrow, ISBN: 0099461528 (September, 2004), 428 p., £6.99.

John Harvey (ed.): Men from Boys (UK 2003)

From the Publisher:
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.

John Harvey (ed.): Men from Boys. Heinemann, ISBN: 0434011819 (November, 2003), 428 p., £16.99.