{"product_id":"2026200017494-secondhand-the-moon-and-sixpence","title":"The Moon And Sixpence","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat drives a man to abandon everything — his career, his family, his comfortable life — in pursuit of an obsession he cannot name? The Moon and Sixpence chronicles the ruthless transformation of Charles Strickland, a stolid London stockbroker who, in middle age, abandons his wife and children to become a painter in Paris, ultimately dying in isolation on the island of Tahiti. Narrated by a wry, detached writer who pieces together the legend of Strickland years after his death, the novel is a brilliant fictional reimagining of the life of Post-Impressionist painter Paul Gauguin, rendered with Maugham's characteristically cool, ironic intelligence.\n\nBeneath its surface as an artist's biography, the novel presents a profound and unsettling meditation on genius, morality, and the brutal cost of artistic ambition. Maugham argues, with quiet ferocity, that true creative genius is fundamentally amoral — indifferent to the conventions of society and the feelings of those it destroys. His prose is elegant, economical, and shot through with a sardonic wit that makes even its most troubling ideas compulsively readable. A century after its first publication, The Moon and Sixpence remains a haunting and deeply provocative question: is the pursuit of beauty ever worth the wreckage it leaves behind?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49216210796763,"sku":"2026200017494-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/50e869a7-802f-47a0-bce6-9d563bdb132a.png?v=1788405415","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200017494-secondhand-the-moon-and-sixpence","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}