Big Fix

by Roger L. Simon

Book Overview

Swirling, curling brushstrokes. Vivid colors. Thick layers of paint. These are the hallmarks of a painting by Vincent van Gogh, whose work his fellow artist Paul C?zanne once called "that of a madman." But Van Gogh and the Post-Impressionists for Kids moves beyond the image of the mad pauper to reveal a complex young man who loved nature and reading, spoke four languages, and enjoyed a successful career as a gallery salesman before embarking on studies...

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0446300438
• ISBN13: 9780446300438
• Release Date: August 1986
• Publisher: Warner Books (NY)
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 5.40 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A real redeemer

Roger Simon has a terrific sense of how our political identities are rooted in so much more (or less) than the depth or purity of our ideas. We identify with those who are the models for the kind of person we think we are, or the group to which we want to belong, and in the process we lose sight of our real political objectives, if we ever knew what they were in the first place. This book explores this dilemma for Moses Wine as he grapples with his own personal history of the sixties in investigating the murder of the woman who symbolizes both his love and politics at that time. Now he must ask again, what really motivates our search for truth? I won't impose my solution to this fascinating mystery.

this is what the 70s were like

superior private eye mystery with the full trappings of the era