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    Smoking Mirror: An Encounter with Paul Gauguin
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    Smoking Mirror: An Encounter with Paul Gauguin

    By Douglas Rees

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    This second book in the Art Encounters series centers on Paul Gauguin's painting Landscape with Peacocks, or Matamoe, and recreates the world the artist found in Tahiti when he painted the picture in 1892.

    This action-packed South Sea adventure is about a young sailor, Joe Sloan, and his mission to avenge the death of his friend, Robert. Joe searches for Robert's girlfriend, a Tahitian girl named Tehane, to deliver the sad news personally. He doesn't have to go far before fate reunites him with his friend's killer, the Marquesan warrior, Gun, and his evil master, a man known as the White Wolf.

    As Joe navigates the unknown territory of Tahiti and its people, he finds an unlikely ally in French artist Paul Gauguin. In the course of the story, readers are introduced to Gauguin and his work, the artist's relationships with the Tahitian natives, and his artistic temperament.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherShort Fuse Publishing
    Release dateJun 24, 2015
    ISBN9781311534576
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    Smoking Mirror: An Encounter with Paul Gauguin
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    Douglas Rees

    The life of Douglas Rees is not a subject he cares to get into deeply. "BORING," he says. Nonetheless, he admits to having been born, and claims the event took place at March Air Force Base in California "Rather a long time ago now." At the age of twelve, he decided that he wanted to be a writer, and spent the next thirty-five years taking intermittent stabs at it. Meanwhile, he worked at various kinds of teaching, spent a year as a hospital orderly, drove something like an ambulance, washed dishes, took inventories, told stories, and was part owner of a ballet school (he can't dance). He got married, got divorced, and got married again (to different people). In his midthirties he went to library school at Berkeley just before they closed it down ("Not my fault," he insists), and currently works as a young adult librarian at the south end of San Francisco Bay. He has one wife and too many cats. Besides Majix, he has written nine other published books, including Lightning Time, Smoking Mirror, and Vampire High, which won various honors, and Grandy Thaxter's Helper, Uncle Pirate, and The Janus Gate, which didn't. He is not particularly weird, but some of the things in Majix, like the smoking scene, are things he has actually done. His favorite music is oatmeal cookies, and his favorite food is turquoise. If you place him near a body of flowing water, he will probably stare at it contentedly without wandering off until you want him again. This cannot be absolutely guaranteed, however. He is notorious for getting lost. He prefers to plead the Twenty-first Amendment in answer to all other questions.

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