A B Patterson

Romy Schneider is, rightly, regarded as one of the greatest screen actresses in history. Her filmography spans European cinema and Hollywood, running from 1953 to 1982, the year of her tragic death at 43. Her talent, grace, beauty, and love of language lit up the silver screen over more than 60 international films. Her portrayal and delivery of sheer passion, deep emotion, and complex characters seared itself into the consciousness of cinephiles the world over and rendered her an adored cult figure.The 20 short stories assembled in this unique anthology celebrate the artistic work of Romy Schneider, paying tribute to her films, her characters, and to her as an actress and a human being. The stories capture many of the themes of her work: love, crime, death, passion, betrayal, and deceit. In bringing those themes to life on the page, Romy Lives

The "bad boy of Australian crime fiction" himself, A.B. Patterson, adapts Nathan Hill's cult classic independent film, Jasper: The Gloves Are Off, into a wild and raunchy novelization. Jasper is the proverbial private eye looking for that one last gig. When he's hired to track down the daughter of a prostitute, he gets into a world of hurt. The many women he encounters along the way both alleviate and sometimes contribute to that hurt. Compared to a cross between Henry Miller and Ross MacDonald, A.B. Patterson's blue prose will have you laughing and longing for the days when a scoundrel could be a scoundrel without New Puritans jumping down his throat for doing nothing more than living his life and being free