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The twelve stories in Direct Sunlight, award-winning author Christine Sneed's latest, are inspired by the memorable strangeness of everyday life. The characters in these topically diverse tales experience events that bring the terms of their day-to-day lives and their relationships into focus in a way hitherto foreign to them"--

Please Be Advised is award-winning author Christine Sneed's bright, irreverent send-up of corporate America in the 21st century. Mixing cultural critique and formal inventiveness with wicked laughs and the sort of surrealistic mysteries only a novel about the corporate world could give us, Please Be Advised tracks the decline, fall, and possible resurrection of Quest Industries, one of the world's foremost purveyors of collapsible, portable, a...

— Collection featuring a range of outstanding and noteworthy authors from across the country— Edited by Christine Sneed, whose The Virginity of Famous Men was a Booklist Editor's Choice in 2016 — Being released near the fifth anniversary of the start of the #MeToo movement — Working with a publicist (Sheryl Johnston) who will be hand-delivering it to Donna Seaman at Booklist

The Virginity of Famous Men, award-winning story writer Christine Sneed's deeply perceptive collection on the human condition, features protagonists attempting to make peace with the choices-both personal and professional-they have so far made. In "The Prettiest Girls, " a location scout for a Hollywood film studio falls in love with a young Mexican woman who is more in love with the idea of stardom than with this older American man who takes ...

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The people who orbit around actor Renn Ivins long to experience the glow of his flame. His children are both drawn to and repelled by the man who overshadows every part of them. This novel offers a clear-eyed story of the fallout of fame and fortune on family members and others who can neither fully embrace nor ignore the superstar in their midst.

The ten stories in this debut collection examine the perils of love and what it means to live during an era when people will offer themselves, almost unthinkingly, to strangers. Risks and repercussions are never fully weighed. People leap and almost always land on rocky ground. May-December romances flourish in these stories, as do self-doubt and, in most cases, serious regret. Mysterious, dangerous benefactors, dead and living artists, movie ...

The people who orbit around Renn Ivins, an actor of Harrison Ford-like stature-his girlfriends, his children, his ex-wives, those on the periphery-long to experience the glow of his flame. Anna and Will are Renn's grown children, struggling to be authentic versions of themselves in a world where they are seen as less-important extensions of their father. They are both drawn to and repelled by the man who overshadows every part of them.Most of ...

Jayne Marks is questioning the choices she has made in the years since college and is struggling to pay her bills in Manhattan when she is given the opportunity to move to Paris with her wealthy lover and benefactor, Laurent Moller, who owns and operates two art galleries, one in New York, the other in Paris. He offers her the time and financial support she needs to begin her career as a painter and also challenges her to see who and what she ...

Trade paperback. A new novel from the award-winning author of "Little Known Facts", set in Paris, about a woman in thrall to a powerful older man.

A mother must reconcile with her growing dislike for the man her teenage son is becoming. A divorced woman confronts her diminished sense of life's possibilities, while her colleague contemplates an affair. A location scout for a film studio falls in love with a young Mexican girl who is more in love with the idea of stardom than with him. A jilted wife contemplates the woman her film-star husband had replaced her with. And a son must overcome...

Stories that explore the tragicomic aspects of romantic love

Jayne Marks is questioning the choices she has made in the years since college and is struggling to pay her bills in Manhattan when she is given the opportunity to move to Paris with her wealthy lover and benefactor, Laurent Moller, who owns and operates two art galleries, one in New York, the other in Paris. He offers her the time and financial support she needs to begin her career as a painter and also challenges her to see who and what she ...

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