Böcker av Christopher Lee Bowen

'Poetry is a collaboration between readers and author. The author writes his impressions and understanding of a given subject but relies on the imagination of the reader to share and explore the implications of his words. Although we are separated by time and distance, a spiritual and emotionalbond is achieved when author and reader share the epiphany of a poem.'

Abington College, very small, antique, once women-only New England college, is venerable and broke, hires a butch Jewish PhD from Brooklyn to salvage what can be in the face of crashing enrollment and desperate need to retain full paid tuition students despite their academic deficiencies. Add to this crisis management, Amanda Hyde (with Jekyll as foreground), English, former au pair girl employed by a New York mafia family, now head of the Abington College Alumni Fund, a picaresque rise from au pair to stripper at the Kit Kat Club in Manhattan and by means of forged documentation to eligibility for her current position, aided in her financial and professional success by a hit man and a plague of fatal accidents among the alumni. All part of the larcenous tale you are about to read if you are lucky enough to get a copy of this book.

Civil War, 1861-1865, the origin of today's political, economic and social conflicts and cause of the 19th century national transformation from farm to factory, town to city, pioneer to wage slave, Bible to Darwin, honor to profit. The story of this historic pivot set in Colorado 1882. Strong characters in a vortex of political corruption, genocide, rape, drug culture (1827 Merck company formed in Germany to produce morphine and later cocaine the start of today's big pharma; the Union Army purchased 10 million morphine pills and an estimated 200,000+ addicts survived field hospitals to return home after the war), gunfighter nation (650,000+ killed in fratricidal war and the habit of killing sustained by hundred thousands of rifles and hand guns that remained in circulation after the war ), abortion, homosexuality, and abiding hope. Not to be missed!