V. S. Kemanis

Your Pick

Selected Stories

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

2019 Eric Hoffer Award, Short Story/Anthology Category 2019 Montaigne Medal Finalist Your Pick is the ideal introduction to the short fiction of V.S. Kemanis. Carefully selected from the author's four collections, the dozen stories in this volume are reader favorites. These are the stories that have resonated deepest, bringing tears and smiles, wonder and discovery. "Powerful and thought provoking... Recommended without reservation." (Book Viral) "Kemanis knows how to build a story and keep it going." (Foreword Reviews on Love and Crime: Stories). From the introduction by the author: "Dear Readers, I've listened to you and learned from you. These are your picks. New Readers, take these stories and escape into worlds unknown yet familiar, imbued with universal situations, conflicts, and emotions. My characters are everyday people navigating the breadth of human experience: love, loss, attraction, repulsion, rejection, acceptance, despair, joy, temptation, loneliness, creativity, self-discovery, failure, success. Enter the lives of these characters and let them stir feelings deep within you." Your Pick includes stories from these collections by V.S. Kemanis: Love and Crime: Stories (Top Shelf Book Awards 2018 Finalist): "Rosemary and Reuben" and "Journal Entry, Franklin DeWitt" (first published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine) Dust of the Universe, tales of family (Commended-SPR Book Awards 2014): "My Latvian Aunt" (a Glimmer Train Top-25 award winner), "Like Love," "Reckoning," and "Dust of the Universe" Everyone But Us, tales of women (The Kindle Book Review Awards 2013 Nominee): "The Cost of Ice Cream," "Pianissimo, Fortissimo," and "The Missing and Uninvited" Malocclusion, tales of misdemeanor (BP Readers' Choice Awards 2014 Nominee): "Malocclusion," "Gray Zone," and "Fractals"

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Opus Nine Books
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 133mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 353g
• ISBN-13: 9780999785034
• ISBN-10: 0999785036
• Artikelnr.: 56871254

Autorenporträt

V. S. Kemanis grew up in the East Bay Area of California in a family with six amazing siblings and parents passionate about politics, social issues, theater, and music. Mealtimes were often raucous, stimulating, intellectual, and fun gatherings in a household full of family and interesting guests, musicians, actors, artists, professors, and university students. Ms. Kemanis holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Colorado Law School, Boulder. She pursued her legal career in New York, where she has been a criminal prosecutor of street crime and organized crime for county and state agencies, argued criminal appeals for the prosecution and defense, conducted complex civil litigation, and worked for judges and appellate courts, most recently as the supervising editor of appellate decisions. Ms. Kemanis is also an accomplished dancer of classical ballet, modern jazz, and contemporary styles and has performed, taught, and choreographed in California, Colorado, and New York. During a wonderful time when her children were young, she took a decade hiatus from her legal career and owned and managed a popular dancewear shop. Short fiction by Ms. Kemanis is available in five award-winning collections, and her stories have been published widely in literary journals, magazines, and anthologies. Her novels of legal suspense draw upon her experience in criminal law and feature prosecutor Dana Hargrove who, like the author, juggles a high-powered legal career with family responsibilities. Ms. Kemanis lives in New York and is a member of the New York chapter of the Mystery Writers of America.