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I, Chimp
Ha-ha! So I did find enough staying power to complete a sensational, life-changing novel. Well, ok, so it's only sixteen thousand words long and is unlikely to change your view of the world - although it is rumoured that Leo Tolstoy bit his Biro in half out of envy upon reading this book...
This is a very short, short novel which I managed to create by combining (and expanding upon) two short stories I had already written about ..a chimpanze with artistic aspirations but no materials to work with and no appreciation from the zoo keepers.. (I, Chimp and I, Chimp - The Great Escape). My novel came out in November 2020 (on the day when everyone in the USA was busy voting for their President).Life-changing it is not, but highly amusing it is... Well, I laughed - and what a great cover!
'..any fool, given an expensive set of oil paints and with a vast talent for capturing – consummately - the light and shades of a scene or form in glorious perfection, can paint De Blindmaking van Simson, but it takes genius - with absolutely no artistic talent - to knock up Un plátano con dos narices with only a few twigs, some vine leaves and a stick - and last night’s post-digested supper..'
Dark humour. Some pictures painted by a chimp. A typewriter (please note, Tom Hanks). Five jokes about a beach ball and a tyre swing. And termites.
The book is price £1.99 or equivalent from the Kobo Bookstore.
