Based closely on the life of the painter Paul Gaugin, this book relates the life of Charles Strickland, a London stockbroker who abandons his home and career in mid-life to live as an artist in Tahiti.
Alroy Kear, commissioned to write a biography of literary lion Edward Driffield, faces a dilemma when h uncovers evidence of Driffield's somewhat less-then- respectable first wife, Rosie.
Based closely on the life of the painter Paul Gaugin, this book relates the life of Charles Strickland, a London stockbroker who abandons his home and career in mid-life to live as an artist in Tahiti.
Philip Carey, a handicapped orphan, is brought up by a self-indulgent Victorian clergyman, sheds his religious faith as a young man, and begins to study art in Paris, but finally returns to London to qualify as a doctor.
Charles Strickland single-mindedly pursues his goal to become a painter on a momentous course that will take him from London to Paris to a fateful journey's end in Tahiti.
