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Sara Paretsky

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Sara Paretsky is a modern American author of detective fiction. Paretsky was raised in Kansas, and graduated from the state university with a degree in political science. She did community service work on the south side of Chicago in 1966 and returned in 1968 to work there. She ultimately completed a Ph.D. in history at the University of Chicago, entitled The Breakdown of Moral Philosophy in New England Before the Civil War, and finally earned an MBA from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. Married to a professor of physics at the University of Chicago, she has lived in Chicago since 1968.

The protagonist of all but two of Paretsky's novels is V.I. Warshawski, a female private investigator. Warshawski's eclectic personalit ...more

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Life After Dobbs

Spared the flames
I returned to Domremy
Minded my brothers’ children and their sheep
Seasons came and went
My hair changed from burnished copper to duller bronze and then to grey
Cataracts grew across my eyes
And children sidestepped the hero of Orleans –
Not that old woman with her threadbare fables of leading troops to war!
Each spring new lambs arrived
I sang them lullabies
Recounting those old battles
Wh

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Indemnity Only (V.I. Warsha...
3.90 avg rating — 17,782 ratings — published 1982 — 68 editions
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Blood Shot (V.I. Warshawski...
4.02 avg rating — 9,736 ratings — published 1988 — 54 editions
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Body Work (V.I. Warshawski,...
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Hard Time (V.I. Warshawski,...
4.04 avg rating — 6,074 ratings — published 1999 — 47 editions
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Hardball (V.I. Warshawski, ...
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Deadlock (V.I. Warshawski, #2)
3.81 avg rating — 5,449 ratings — published 1984 — 64 editions
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Fire Sale (V.I. Warshawski,...
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Killing Orders (V.I. Warsh...
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“The hardest thing about adolescence is that everything seems too big. There's no way to get context or perspective, ..... Pain and joy without limits. No one can live like that forever, so experience finally comes to our rescue. We come to know what we can endure, and also that nothing endures.”
― Sara Paretsky, Bleeding Kansas
tags: adolescence, endurance, experience, inspirational
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“When you're struggling to survive, no one gets to label you a coward, not even you yourself in your private thoughts.”
― Sara Paretsky, Brush Back
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“A god who cares more about a little water on the head than my daughter's character is not a deity I want her to spend eternity with.”
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