EMILE GAUGUIN’S TALE (SOLDIER OF FORTUNE, CEO OF AN ELECTRIC COMPANY, AND HOMELESS VAGRANT) HAS A HAPPY ENDING: THAT IS WHEN HE MET COAUTHOR FRANK. What they are saying:“Will prove to be one of the most comprehensive accounts of the Gauguin family.” Michelle, Gauguin specialist and book author.“Loved reading this … the story, the flow.” Jonas Gauguin, great-grandson.“Information-packed … fascinating.” Englewood Sun.“Amazing book.” Jacob Gauguin, great-grandson.“Well researched, engaging.” Joseph Diamond, (federal attorney).“A little gem.” Thomas Sullivan, best-selling author.“They upset the apple cart.” Philippe Gauguin, grandson, talking about the family’s preconceived opinion.”Ambitious work is an excellent resource.” S. Madiq, website designerEmile Gauguin repeatedly told his cousin, Maria Elena, he was a failure. A famous father was the cause. He just could never measure up.Still he remained a proud, engineer-adventurer-warrior leading rebel combatants, cheating death in the northern Andes, constantly searching for work on three continents, continually facing financial collapse, fighting off hunger as a homeless transient in the American Great Depression, having to deal with three colossal marital breakups and reconciliations.And yet, suddenly, at his life’s darkest hour, most likely suicidal, when he wrote his cousin, detailing page-after-page his pathetic existence … almost as a miracle … his life two thirds over … changed to one of happiness and peace."Loved reading this ... the story, the flow." Jonas Gauguin, great-grandson.

Paul Gauguin's Son: The Life and Times of Emile Gauguin

McIntyre, David

Butterworth, Frank

Biographies & Memoirs

Saugus Books

The tale begins with a rebellious, Francophile, American woman married with small kids vacationing in Southern France. While her tiresome husband is in the US, she falls for a totally charming Frenchman, a man who is already having two affairs. She is convinced she still has ‘it’ - her beauty will win him away from both: one is poor, but beautiful - the other, homely, but wealthy. …But the night she is about to make her move, the charmer disappears throwing her into a deep depression. Agonizing over the untimely death of his newborn son, he avoids his 'deflowered' American, one of his artichoke petals. Alarmed, the woman's maid wires a 'come-here-quick' note to the American cuckold. When he arrives, he sees the skeleton of his 'liberated' wife, a discarded artichoke petal, drawn, vacant, sullen who he magnanimously nurses back to health. On their way back to America, nearly recovered from her depression, a sudden, tragic series of events explode as the novel comes to a tumultuous end. Completed in 1933 the author skillfully traces the mental changes of the female protagonist, gives intimate details of the affair, masterfully describes the charming social and physical milieu of day-to-day life of Southern France prior to the buildup to World War II. A page turner, the first of several, posthumous novels by an as yet unknown author with consummate writing talent. A SPECIAL NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER: In the Acknowledgment (p. ii) and Notes by the Editor (p.271) some people have misinterpreted the expression, ’copy editing’, to mean changing the author’s text from the original to something the editor felt was better. This could not be further from the truth. Enormous effort was made to retain every word in the original, 85-year-old manuscript. The expression ‘copy editing’ should be, perhaps, ‘proofreading’. We hope most of the errors have been removed.

The Heart of an Artichoke

Romance

Butterworth, Katie

Paranormal

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