Joe Byrd
on Tour
May 3-28
with
Monet & Oscar:
Essence of Light
(historical fiction)
Official release date: May 1st, 2021
at Giverny Books
300 pages
📚📚📚
SYNOPSIS
At the end of WWI, Oscar, an American soldier in a French Army hospital, learned of his mother’s death while recovering from his war wounds. He remained in France to search for his father, an Impressionist painter, whose identity his mother never revealed. Through curious circumstances, he’s hired to be a gardener for Claude Monet. Oscar jumped at the opportunity to further his landscaping career by working in Monet’s world-famous garden at Giverny. He hoped the most renowned Impressionist could help him find his father.
Monet, tired and disheartened by his ailing health and deteriorating eyesight, took Oscar along on visits to his previous painting venues and allowed him to meet some of his art-world friends. These meetings provided insights into Monet’s life and art and clues to Oscar’s father’s identity.
On a train returning from Paris to Giverny, Oscar met and fell in love with Isabelle, a beautiful young American artist, who introduced him to the emerging 1920’s fashions and mores. She is the daughter of one of Monet’s major American clients, which interests him. Over Monet’s daughters’ objections, Isabelle and Oscar become regular guests at family gatherings as their infatuation blossoms into a unique love affair. Oscar’s past, present, and future collide in a way that he could not have anticipated.
No violence and a little sex
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Joe Byrd‘s BS in Journalism
and MA in Communications degrees
inspired him to become a pioneer in electronic publishing.
As a McGraw-Hill editor,
he developed one of the first computer publishing systems.
In the rapidly developing PC software industry,
he co-authored one of his two books
using PC desktop publishing software,
the first for a major publishing house.
He developed the first technical support website in the software industry.
In his fifty-year career, he published magazines, wrote research reports,
and developed conferences in the US and Europe for the digital photography industry.
He launched one of the first digital photography dot coms. This is his first novel.
To find our more,
please visit his website, and follow him on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram
March 15, 2021
WordsAndPeace
France Book Tours 
5 responses to “Joe Byrd on tour: Monet and Oscar”
Denise Duvall
May 1st, 2021 at 19:33
https://fondation-monet.com/visite-virtuelle/#/chambre_blanche/
Marianne Maurer
April 13th, 2021 at 10:49
This sounds great. I love Monet. I’d love to write a review but will first have to get the book. LOL
Thanks for introducing it to me.
Marianne @ Let’s Read
WordsAndPeace
April 19th, 2021 at 11:19
It’s very easy to get the book, just request it through this form: https://francebooktours.com/2021/03/15/joe-byrd-on-tour-monet-and-oscar/
Marianne Maurer
April 20th, 2021 at 03:47
Thanks for sending me the option to find the book, I went to the link. Unfortunately, I don’t read ebooks, I just can’t take it in, so I’ll have to see whether I get a hard copy. But thanks for the link.
WordsAndPeace
April 20th, 2021 at 08:48
Oh sorry about that. The book is actually already available in paperback. check here: https://bookshop.org/lists/french-artists-in-historical-fiction
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