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This novel follows the life of Paul Gauguin, famous French post-impressionist painter, but it is not a novelized biography of Gauguin. Rather it is a sharply delineated, carefully wrought “private life,” written by a literary master.
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"When it rains in a Burroughs novel, the reader gets wet."
Jack McDevitt, Nebula and Philip K. Dick Award–winning author
"[A] witty, compelling roman à clef…that mock[s] the way the world makes saints of the sinners who are often its best artists."
Boston Globe
"Davidson has great success in personalizing the various male characters…[Maugham's novel and] Davidson's effortless narration form an integrated whole that is among the best in audio fiction."
Library Journal