Bøger af David Nemec

The author of 38 baseball books and seven novels, including the internationally acclaimed The Systems of M.R. Shurnas, David Nemec adds to his reputation as a writer of erotic whodunits (Bright Lights Dark Rooms: Doubleday), (Mad Blood: The Dial Press) with a graphic tale set in today's Manhattan of a serial killer with a grotesquely comic flair that will both challenge and shock thinking readers. As in Stonesifer, Nemec's most famous serial killer novel, Who's Dicing the Daughters of Pan? is a total reexamination of the mystery and thriller genre. The book forces us to address uncomfortable questions. Who is its hero? Who is its real villain? Nemec's rapier wit, many unexpected plot twists and deep psychological understanding of what are truly the most heinous crimes of our world make us wonder whether we even dare enter into an intimate relationship in these times. His answer is yes, but not the yes that most of us may want to hear. Bright Lights, Dark Rooms "I loved it--I read it in one afternoon." -Ken Follett Mad Blood "Nemec, a former New York state parole officer, has woven plot, characters, action and wry humor into a first-rate whodunit." -Library Journal Stonesifer "Nemec demonstrates that the mystery's key elements--guilt, uncertainty and the need to eliminate the latter by establishing the former--are really the building blocks of our inner lives." -George Blecher, author of Other People Exist The Systems of M.R. Shurnas "...an extraordinary exploration of human nature in our time..." --Carol Stack, author of Call to Home and All Our Kin

The author of the internationally acclaimed The Systems of M.R. Shurnas, novelist and baseball historian David Nemec expands his reputation as a wide-ranging architect of coming-of-age novels (Remember Me to My Father: Robert D. Reed), erotic whodunits (Mad Blood: The Dial Press) and historical baseball tales (Early Dreams: Pocol Press) with the haunting story of Paul Raber, destined to replay forever his mental pictures of events from over thirty years earlier when he is everlastingly drawn to Seena Schain, a beautiful married poet he first encounters when she gives a reading at the prison where he is incarcerated. Told in Raber's often chillingly honest voice, The Picture Maker becomes progressively more spellbinding as each new layer of his torrid love affair with the mercurial Seena is unpeeled. Nemec's vivid sense of eroticism and his deep psychological understanding of his characters provide an unforgettable portrait of two star crossed lovers caught in a deadly maelstrom when they come to separate recognitions that they are both inescapably enmeshed in the "Cold Case" murder of a young girl.

Completely updated and expanded through the 2019 baseball season! In a game that has been our national pastime since the 1850s, there have been countless changes, additions and adaptations to the rules of baseball. But while the sport has altered considerably in recent years, its essence is still deeply rooted in its early history. Completely revised and updated through the 2019 baseball season, David Nemec has brought back into print his renowned book The Official Rules of Baseball Illustrated. Along with providing a thorough investigation into the rules of the game and how they came to be, Nemec explains the reasoning behind many of the modifications, both large and small, and in so doing furnishes numerous examples of the specific instances that led to a particular rule being created afresh, rewritten or excised from the rule book entirely. Whether we’re talking about the uproarious “Pine Tar Game,” harrowing home plate collisions, or the constant fine tuning through the years to maintain an equilibrium between hitting and pitching, fans of all ages are given a comprehensive handbook of the pivotal incidents that shaped the game as we know it today.  But The Official Rules of Baseball Illustrated is much more than a textbook on the rules.  It is rich with illustrative anecdotes throughout the game’s long history that feature many of baseball’s most famous players, umpires and teams as well as some of its most unsung. With photographs that help bring to life some of the movers and shakers in the ways the game has evolved over time, all fans of the sport will welcome adding this book to their libraries. As The Glory of Their Times author Lawrence S. Ritter said, “This is one of the most entertaining baseball books I have read in a very long time.  Any baseball fan, young or old, will find it fun...”

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