Book giveaway: Monet and Oscar, by Joe Byrd #parisinjuly2023
Monet & Oscar,
by
Joe Byrd
(historical fiction)
Published March 10, 2021
at Giverny Books
300 pages
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SYNOPSIS
Monet & Oscar is an enthralling and beautiful story filled with art, love, passion, self-discovery, and a reconciliation with the past.
Set against the backdrop of Monet’s famous garden at Giverny, France, this book offers a new, historically accurate depiction of Monet told through the eyes of a fictional character, Oscar.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Joe Byrd:
“I first found Claude Monet while sitting among 300 students in a college Humanities 101 class.
He spoke to me.
He told me about color, brush strokes, and impressions rather than photographic reproduction of live scenes.
He became a lifelong friend who helped a boy from West Virginia’s coal region learn about art.
Twenty-five years later, I began researching Claude Monet.
After reading and re-reading the art books I had collected, I purchased more in-depth biographies.
Most notably, Daniel Wildenstein’s “Monet: The Triumph of Impressionism,” a four-volume set that contains every one of Monet’s paintings plus an extensive history of Monet’s life.
Ross King’s “Mad Enchantment” was another revealing account of Monet’s final years.
I also attended Japanese woodblock print exhibitions in San Francisco and the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, and every art museum in Paris and many across the US.
At last, I was getting a clearer picture of Monet, the times in which he worked, and his fellow painters.
This thirty-year research project led me to commit to writing a book about Monet, his personal life, and his family.
After ten years of writing and rewriting the opening scene in my head and the pandemic lockdown hit, I finally sat down to write.
I chose to write a novel instead of a biography because fiction makes history easier to understand.
This historically accurate novel is the result of my years of discovery.
I hope you will feel my effort has been worthwhile and that your time has been well spent reading “Monet & Oscar: Essence of Light.”
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