Bøger af Louis Sinclair

20% of profit from sale of each book is donated to ACLU: Oranguman & pink woman is a darkly humorous novella focused on greed and an obsession with appearance, wealth, and power by a wealthy villager from Big Apple who paints himself orange as a token of respect toward village warriors. Oranguman, otherwise known as Om, has inherited a substantial amount of money and property from his father, Big Viagere. The Viageres have a reputation in Big Apple for questionable dealings through their business schemes, one of which is Om's gambling house that has been accused of bilking older people out of their savings. Om has three wives. His most recent wife, Pink Woman, is admired for her pink skin which is attributable to her use of a pink skin cream. She was purchased from a foreign country and villagers believe she has extra "powers" because she can speak several languages. Pink Woman introduced pink skin cream, colored lip grease, and eye-liner to Big Apple, and village women are imitating her. Om decides to run for Chief of Whyland, a position currently held by Chief Aka Abioye from the tribe known as the Tans. Twenty years younger than Oranguman, Aka is the target of constant harassment by Om who has always been jealous of him and envious that Chief Abioye resides in the Big House, a house set aside for Whyland's current chief. Om wants to change Whyland's rules and laws that block his ability to make more money, and after discussing this with some of his wealthy friends, he decides to run for chief which begins an intrigue that is largely the focus of Sinclair's novella. Although the story is similar to lives of several dictators in the world, what takes place is unique to Oranguman, Pink Woman, and the country of Whyland. Justice is eventually served and Whyland is freed from Oranguman and the corrupt Viagere family.

December, 2016 Edition - Imbrication contains forty-one, very readable poems, written for first-time poetry readers and poets alike. About one-quarter of the poems have appeared individually in journals or magazines. All of the poems have elements that relate to the title, Imbrication-an overlapping of edges. Numerous poems in Imbrication speak to our need to be more consciously aware of, and involved with, the overlapping connection we have with what takes place in and around our lives, especially our interaction with the natural world. All of the poems relate to the author's experience living on three continents, within distinctly different cultures, over the course of the past fifty years. Most of the poems within Imbrication have elements of irony or satire because, apart from being brief and poignant, life is often ironic and satirical. These poems seek to reach deeper than the surface of specific images, and touch on concerns shared by all people.