"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 w ..."
"It could be worse, I know. It could be taxidermied armadillos and Foghat lyrics
and velvet Elvis portraits and a brand new can of honeyroasted peanuts and the
one time he got to lower the flag in the third grade. Though I suppose that's not so
bad. It's not like he's squeezing kittens until they pop or burning all of his baby
pictures while his mother weeps on the other side of the bathroom door because
he thinks he looks like a sk ..."
Paris, He Said by ChristineSneed Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 2015 by Bloomsbury Usa ISBN-13: 978-1-62040-692-2, ISBN: 1-62040-692-6
"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 wh ..."
"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 th ..."