Book Discussion: WILD THING by Sue Prideaux

Wild Thing by Sue Prideaux will be our final book from the list (and it's nonfiction!). Hope to see you there! Here's a summary: "In the annals of art history, bad boy artists are legion, and the 19th-century French painter Gauguin often figures near the top of the list — denounced as a colonizer who seduced underage Tahitian girls and spread syphilis in the South Seas. Prideaux’s enthralling biography, studded with keen close readings of her subject’s innovative art, chips away at this caricature, fashioning in its stead a slyly witty portrait of an original and contradictory man who experienced extreme wealth and abject poverty, who abandoned his wife, children and country in pursuit of his singular artistic vision, and who fought for the interests of his Polynesian neighbors against the colonial authorities even as he took in several of their daughters as child brides." Hope to see you then!