📗 Libro en inglés WILD THING

A TIMES DAILY TELEGRAPH SPECTATOR ECONOMIST NEW STATESMAN AND TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN S PRIZE FOR NON FICTION 2025 WINNER OF THE POL ROGER DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2025 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON FICTION 2024 WINNER OF THE FRANCO BRITISH SOCIETY LITERARY AWARD 2024 A vital re examination of the trailblazing and controversial artist Paul Gauguin and the first full biography in over thirty years written by the award winning author of I Am Dynamite A Life of Nietzsche Scintillating FINANCIAL TIMES Immaculate NEW STATESMAN Phenomenal PROSPECT A heroic rehabilitation THE TIMES Paul Gauguin is chiefly known as the giant of post Impressionist painting whose bold colours and compositions rocked the Western art world It is less well known that he was a stockbroker in Paris and that after the 1882 financial crash he struggled to sustain his artistry and worked as a tarpaulin salesman in Copenhagen a canal digger in Panama City and a journalist exposing the injustices of French colonial rule in Tahiti In Wild Thing the award winning biographer Sue Prideaux re examines the adventurous and complicated life of the artist She illuminates the people places and ideas that shaped his vision his privileged upb