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Hardball

Hardball. Sara Paretsky Presented by: Mitchell and Justin. Sara herself. Sara herself. Born June 8, 1947. Kansas farm-girl to New York Times bestseller.

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Hardball

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  1. Hardball Sara Paretsky Presented by: Mitchell and Justin

  2. Sara herself

  3. Sara herself • Born June 8, 1947. • Kansas farm-girl to New York Times bestseller. • runs Chicago’s lakefront with her golden retriever, and loves to sing, taking part in community musicals.  Paretsky lives on Chicago’s south side with her husband, a member of the University of Chicago’s Fermi Institute. • She loves the Chicago Cubs.

  4. awards • 1986 – Anthony award- nomination for best novel, killing orders. • 1989 – Anthony Award – nomination for best novel, blood shot. • 1992 – Anthony Award – nomination of best short story collection award, A Womens Eye. • 2011 – Anthony Award – lifetime achievement award winner.

  5. books • Breakdown • Body Work • Hardall • Bleeding Kansas • Fire sale • Black List

  6. Books • Total Recall • Hardtime • Ghost country • Tunnel Vision • Gaurdian Angel • And more

  7. Sara herself • She loves to take part in community musicals • When asked about what she dislikes most about writning, she answers, “ you have to be alone to write, but being alone is very painful, an unsolvable conundrum.” • Was disturbed with how females were portrayed in detective fiction, so she went on to make V.I.

  8. v.I.warshawski

  9. V.I warshawski • Not an average detective • too serious • Quick to anger, is loyal and intelligent • Grew up in Chicago’s south side. • Her father was a cop and her mother a refugee from Musolini Italy • Her mother died while she was a teenager, that still haunts V.I.

  10. V.I. Warshawski • Impatient and restless. • Attended the University of Chicago on an athletic scholarship where she also attended law school. • V.I. was married for about 18 months then learned her husband only admired independent women from a distance and became divorced. • Now she has two dogs that she shares with her neighbor.

  11. Main characters • V.I. Warshawski- detective • Lamont Gadsen- missing person • Petra- V.I.’s cousin also missing • V.I.’s Father- policeman and suspect

  12. SettingChicago

  13. Cultural issues • Racism • Sexism • Politics • Family tension

  14. The story • V.I. is hired to find a missing person named Lamont Gadsen who disappeared about 40 years ago during the civil rights movement, V.I. is hired by two older ladies to find him, soon after she heads o the ghetto but nobody there tells her anything they don’t like her then her clients start calling her a fraud, then she finds hidden in her trunk a major league baseball bat studded with nails. • Also her long lost and unknown cousin Petra who came to town for a political campaign goes missing while visiting V.I. office with two other men..

  15. The story • V.I. thinks that Petra’s disappearance is linked to the warshawski family secret. In which everything seems to be related in this case from her Father cop working in the same case. • In the story her office is ransacked, her cousin goes missing, and an explosion puts her on the bench momentarily. • In the end V.I. and Petra almost die by a fire, but end up being ok.

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