PositiveThe Irish Times (IRE)After her excellent biography of Friedrich Nietzsche, I am Dynamite, Sue Prideaux’s take on Gauguin, Wild Thing is a more conflicting read ... Prideaux is a dynamic and engaging writer ... Metaphors leap off the page, to the extent that the careful reader may start to be suspicious as to how much they are being led to conclusions ... Gauguin, who died in 1903, was born in a different era, with different values, and it is up to us how we choose to judge him. But it is also up to a biographer to be clear in how they present their case. Read with fascination, and relish the evocations of time and place, but reader, read with care.
Orlando Whitfield
PositiveThe Irish Times (IRE)In this tale of greed, excess and lies so slippery you feel as if you’re skating on the surface of a weirdly mirrored reality, the extravagant names are just the tip of an almost unbelievable iceberg ... Whitfield... writes with brilliantly descriptive, and often tendentious eloquence.
