Bøker av Curt Orloff

Streetcar Sandwiches is a screenplay showing the efforts the owner of a sandwich shop in Uptown New Orleans undertakes to keep her business running. Not only does she have to deal with a menagerie of all types of employees, she has to comply with onerous and often conflicting regulations from several government bureaus. How she handles what turns into an ordeal threatens to change her naturally optimistic and pleasant personality. It leads directly to an outcome that could only have occurred in the Big Easy.

Keys to the 'V' Door is a 150000 word novel set in New Orleans and off shore during the oild boom of the late seventies and early eighties. It is a coming of age adventure story of privileged youth who instead of getting to enjoy a maturity of social advantages finds he has to redress a wrong he committed as he tries to prove his father didn't cheat the IRS. During his odyssey, Randall Cunningham recovers from the destitution he is reduced to when his father is arrested to track down an invoice he is sure would prove his innocence. While doing so he accesses inner strengths conformism once hid, redresses a wrong he committed, finds love, finds respect for women and helps establish a rape crisis center, fights the mafia, learns to appreciate those who he once just dismissed, and learns to take pride in the inadvertent professions of roustabout and roughneck he had to acquire in his pursuit of the paperwork. A yuppie becomes a hand, and is proud of it.Curt Orloff is an Eagle Boy Scout, former First Lieutenant who replaced a passion for golf with one for writing. His geology degree he has afforded him opportunities to work all over the world that provided fascinating material to write about.

"Thunder in the Wind" is an historical novel about the deculturization of reservation Indians in the late eighteen hundreds. The story shows how the Assiniboine, and one family in particular, dealt with being subjected to an Indian Bureau that subscribed to the ethic popular at the time of "white man's burden."The main character's response was as confused and counterproductive as everyone else's. For quite a while he was lost. Those today who are also experiencing the annihilation of their culture can understand the direction he eventually took while at the same time empathizing with the direction his mother took. She wanted to accept subjugation, the surrender of her culture and heritage to keep her family intact. Her son's rebellion used tactics similar to those used today by those who leverage fear to terrorize opponents into submission. How things turned out and how he resolved his conflict with his mother showed how universal the problem is. It is an allegory of our times.

Streetcar Sandwiches is a screenplay showing the efforts the owner of a sandwich shop in Uptown New Orleans undertakes to keep her business running. Not only does she have to deal with a menagerie of all types of employees, she has to comply with onerous and often conflicting regulations from several government bureaus. How she handles what turns into an ordeal threatens to change her naturally optimistic and pleasant personality. It leads directly to an outcome that could only have occurred in the Big Easy.