T'ings - Wolos, Gregory
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T'ings presents the decades-long saga of two families, the Kleins and the Walchuks, whose intersecting destinies orbit the career of Amabel Hadley, child actor turned celebrity disaster. Raymond Walchuk, filmmaker patriarch of the first family, rises above the B grade horror films he's known for by directing a family adventure blockbuster, Kong's Daughter. But his subsequent foray into serious independent filmmaking ends scandalously after his on-set mistreatment of ten-year-old Amabel. Raymond's son Carl, after a promising beginning to his own film career, ages out of his cuteness and retires…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
T'ings presents the decades-long saga of two families, the Kleins and the Walchuks, whose intersecting destinies orbit the career of Amabel Hadley, child actor turned celebrity disaster. Raymond Walchuk, filmmaker patriarch of the first family, rises above the B grade horror films he's known for by directing a family adventure blockbuster, Kong's Daughter. But his subsequent foray into serious independent filmmaking ends scandalously after his on-set mistreatment of ten-year-old Amabel. Raymond's son Carl, after a promising beginning to his own film career, ages out of his cuteness and retires from performing in his teens, while his mother, Raymond's ex-wife Christine, launches a successful online gaming magazine. Meanwhile, Jenna Klein, the alopecia-afflicted teenage super-fan of celebrity (now rehab queen) Amabel, deserts her well-meaning mother and long-suffering boyfriend to become a profiteering (and murderous) surrogate. Jenna ultimately absconds to Mexico on the promise of a higher price for the child she carries (the in vitro offspring of long dead Raymond and dying Christine). Carl Walchuk and Amabel reconnect as adults on the set of the animated project which Amabel hopes will resuscitate her career. They fall in love, and, for a time co- parent toddler Wray (Raymond's biological brother and the child Jenna sought to barter). And then . . . ?
Autorenporträt
Over one hundred of Gregory Wolos' short stories have been published in such journals as Glimmer Train, Georgia Review, Qwerty, descant, Florida Review, The Pinch, Southern Humanities Review, Post Road, Nashville Review, Yemassee, Baltimore Review, Orca, The MacGuffin, The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review, Los Angeles Review, PANK, Superstition Review, and Tahoma Literary Review. His stories have earned numerous Pushcart Prize nominations and have won monetary awards sponsored by descant, Solstice, the Rubery Book Awards, Gulf Stream, New South, Emrys Journal, and Gambling the Aisle. His full-length collections include Women of Consequence (Regal House Publishing, 2019, audiobook forthcoming), Dear Everyone (Duck Lake Books, 2020), The Green Ray and Other Stories (Scantic Books, 2022), and The Thing About Men (Cervena Barva Press, 2023). Most of Wolos' stories promote Kafka's assertion that a literary work "should be an ice ax to break up the frozen sea inside us." T'ings is no exception. For full lists of his publications and commendations, visit www.gregorywolos.com.