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George Brinner
I paint pictures with orange skies and purple trees and write stories that explore the recesses of their character's minds-in a casual way. I also own a little bar called Kahale's Beach Club in Kihei on the southern coast of Maui where I can take refreshment and watch the whales play. The avatar for my profile is from my painting, "A Day on Keawakapu", available now through my web site-also available in giclee prints. Cover graphic of 'Einstein's Road Trip' is from a painting I did of Einstein years ago.
Maui has been home since I came to Hawaii by chance in the summer of nineteen seventy eight. One perk I have as an artist and writer is I can survive in one place about as well as any other and so far I've found no place I would rather be.
Occasionally my friends lounge in the shade of five palms that line the grassy knoll at the beach of Keawakapu - the Hawaiian word for forbidden harbor according to my bartender, Kimo Kuaana. They sip mai-tais and gin as they prattle on about this and that.
Sometimes I join them of course, but you may be more likely to find me in my studio a block away readying paintings for show or writing whatever comes to mind, and that's okay with me.
All Books By This Author:
- Einstein's Road Trip - Winslow to Thibodaux and Beyond
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Magic Realism, Mystery, and Murder - An artist's fragile grasp on reality becomes more tenuous after he meets Albert Einstein on Arizona's high desert plateau.
Maui artist Gilles Barker, his Hopi Indian cab driver and an illusory Albert Einstein are chased by a psychotic killer and his drug dealing boss across the deserts and bayous from Winslow Arizona to New Orleans’ French Quarter in quest of lost love and a satchel’s mysterious contents.
Are Gilles’s strange encounters and selective omniscience only in his imagination and his dreams? Has he traveled through space and time? Gilles has grappled with these questions since two nights before his eighth Christmas, thirty years ago, when Ron from the planet Zargon first walked through his bedroom wall and told him of the true beginnings of life on earth – that fate is his only guide.
Einstein's Road Trip was among those on the finalists list for the 2009 Faulkner/Wisdom Creative Writing Competition. It is the second completed novel of a three book series. 88,600 words
- Genres: Contemporary Fiction
