SINNERS

About the Book

The novel gives a search by an English prof. (Jim Truebig)  through the past histories of two friends  who do not know each other.  He suspects similar past histories, and comes to believe that they did indeed share in some terrible experiences.  They suffered--and he comes to a realization of that.  Both were incest-victims:  he must learn to think about that.  The novel is a story of how he goes about doing this:  Stella May Jones and Osvaldo Burroughs come through vividly in the process--first-rate people  hobbled by early-life trauma.

This is an anti-incest book.

About the Author

Edward Loomis, author of HEROIC SPAIN, has been engaged with Spanish and Spanish-American literature and culture during the last seven years, concentrating on Rubén Darío and Antonio Machado, and the poems collected here come out of that effort. The idea of this book is that these poets were leaders in the Hispanic civilization, and were accepted as such. Their work shows some of the strengths of that civilization, decadent as they found it which is successful now partly because of them, and their work lives on as privileged by their talent and dedication.