The Passion of Anyaskaya - Kremen, Bennett

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Résumé :
A stunning dancer, choreographer, Anyaskaya d'Borovik, was born thirty-five years ago into New York City's driving, churning energy. Her mother now departed was an adventurous, high strata white Russian exile while her father, now also departed, was keeping to the Russian tradition of mysticism long practiced by the venerable d'Borovic family. And though thoroughly American, Anya embodies these clashing traits lucidly in a unique but believable characterization, making her distinct in New York's high society and heralded artistic circles. In both, her raven-haired beauty and striking talent impresses all. While battling to secure financing for bringing to the stage the most fateful dance performance of her life, she encounters Henri Mellington, heir to an international banking fortune. And that's soon launching a dire and gripping chain of complications. Despite her struggle to avoid it, Anya meets someone else, Salvatore 'Sonny Boy' Aiello. Though not as privileged as the others pursuing her, he's more notorious, original and unforgettable. Mellington-stung and smarting in his rejection -turns in revenge to his family's vast political connections and a march toward disaster's set in motion. Sonny Boy, always intriguing, often funny and potentially lethal, began his rise among the borgatas, restless gangs of tough, young Italians marauding the back streets of Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, leading ultimately to prominence luxury and power in the demimonde of lower Manhattan. Though Sonny's life is a colorful one filled with mordant humor and teasing playfulness, he's described most of all as having ''...the hardness of someone tested brilliantly in raging flames-unyielding, enhanced, ineffably rare.'' And Anya, though mortified, is totally enraptured unable to resist it. And now their love races on sometimes touching, sometimes perilous, always exciting. This surging tension keeps rising relentlessly through the whole book. In the end, though, the power and privilege of the Mellingtons prevails and our star-crossed lovers'' taste in pity and sorrow the full bitter consequences.

Sommaire:
Most of all, I'm a curious, adventurous writer, encountering many extraordinary people and places, sometimes beautiful, sometimes evil. And for many years, I'd been describing this passionately and publishing frequently with New York's renown William Morse Agency representing me. As a result, a main stream publisher, The Dial Press, brought out a volume of my new Journalism (popular decades ago). And In its wake, I began vigorously free lancing articles and reviews for The New York Times Sunday Book Review and daring reporting soon after for The Nation, The Village Voice and many other publications.But then, unfortunately, I was stricken with a serious illness, ending my writing for a dreadfully long time. Ultimately though, when I at last blessedly recovered, my writing began again, this time deeper, more intense, more heartfelt than ever and dedicated to fiction now, powerful fiction. Sadly however, after such a long time, my relationship with William Morse lapsed. But even more devisting are my lost contacts with responsive editors and publishers, many of whom have retired or are on life support or have passed on. So thank heavens there's self publishing. And my novel, The Passion Of Anyaskaya, found a home there and a screenplay based on my harrowing adventures, working on the Alaska Pipeline, during its construction, will soon join it. But what most needs attention is the novel I'm presenting now, Savage Days Haunted Nights....