β Scribed by Christine Sneed
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
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 paths they have taken thus far. In "The Prettiest Girls,β ? 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 her with him back to California. "Clear Conscienceβ ? focuses on the themes of family loyalty, divorce, motherhood, and whether "doing the right thingβ ? is, in fact, always the right thing to do. In "Beach Vacation,β ? a mother realizes that her popular and coddled teenaged son has become someone she has difficulty relating to, let alone loving with the same maternal fervor that once was second nature to her. The title story, "The Virginity of Famous Men,β ? explores family and fortune.
Long intrigued by love and loneliness, Sneed leads readers through...
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
This spine-tingling collection of horror, mystery and suspense tales brings together some of the best authors in the genre, including Edgar Allan Poe and Algernon Blackwood. If you're a fan of late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century mystery and suspense stories, be sure to give *Famous Ghost Sto
In compliance with the promise in my address as chairman of the Section on Historical Pharmacy, at the Denver meeting, I herewith present short biographical sketches of men born in 1813, men who were pharmacists or chemists or botanists, men who have greatly hdped in the evolution of pharmacy and me