HARDBALLSara Paretsky

Presented by: Mitchell and Justin

SARA HERSELF

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.

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.

BOOKS

Breakdown

Body Work

Hardall

Bleeding Kansas

Fire sale

Black List

BOOKS

Total Recall

Hardtime

Ghost country

Tunnel Vision

Gaurdian Angel

And more

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.

V.I.WARSHAWSKI

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.

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.

MAIN CHARACTERS

V.I. Warshawski- detective

Lamont Gadsen- missing person

Petra- V.I.’s cousin also missing

V.I.’s Father- policeman and suspect

SET TIN GCHICAGO

CULTURAL ISSUES

Racism

Sexism

Politics

Family tension

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..

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.