Walking Among Giants: A painter in Paradise

By Michael S. Meusch

Walking Among Giants is an epic love story that crosses ocean's and time capturing the history of the modern art era, Jazz, flappers, and wild all- night parties witnessed through the memoirs of a young painter in the 1920's. Artist Robert Tauney was always a dreamer. After serving in the Great War, He ventures home to mourn the death of his Mother and confront his worst enemy, his own personal Demons. His future held the promise of inheriting the family business. Robert has other plans and follows his inspiration to venture to Paris. He soon befriends film stars, painters, authors, such as Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Modigliani, Cha?m Soutine, Picasso, Erik Satie, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, and many other creative intellectuals of the time. The plot deepens with unrequited love, the Model/Entertainer- Kiki of Montparnasse, and Camille Bastain, (Tigress), a French actress who slowly pulls him into the dark world of opium and drug abuse. Robert will soon find out that Paris has an ancient secret awaiting him. In an epoch time of passion and a sexual revolution, a symbolic tidal wave of destruction and chaos is forming. Robert is at the Crossroads of his life and must make a life-changing decision or be swept away in the Tsunami of deception, denial, and addiction while facing impossible odds. Robert soon finds that Paradise turns into hell and the delights he once sought after become a disillusioned dream. This Novel is a gorgeous, and compelling work that brings the non-artist closer to the painting process and the workings of the artistic mind. This fictional work gives a rare look at what it might have been like as an artist in Paris during the roaring twenties, living and Walking Among Giants in the midst of a lost generation.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1520223560
• ISBN13: 9781520223568
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 395 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.0" x 6.0"