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| "Great
fun!"
"...a
skillful blend of history and the author's interesting childhood journey."
"...the
artist shows through in the writing. Spetz truly
paints with words."
"Hilarious!"
"Sweet."
"Clever."
"Searching
for Alpha Centauri puts
the fun in dysFUNctional!"
"Colorful."
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Searching
for Alpha Centauri:
A Boyhood Memoir
(formerly titled Easy Hearts) is American Public Television artist Gary Spetz's colorful
tale of living a nomadic life with an impetuous mother, a discontent casino-security-guard step-father,
a kid-indifferent French poodle, and two older, often
antagonistic, siblings—all
during the turbulent early 1960s. The artist/author paints his
experience with both humor and sensitivity, adeptly portraying his ever moving landscape. Effectively
blended into Searching for Alpha Centauri's backdrop is the author’s keen attention to
the world events unfolding around him. These were the days of an impending nuclear war, an exciting new space race, an escalating conflict in Vietnam, a rising civil rights movement, the invasion of Beatlemania, and the shocking assassination of a President.
To the story's protagonist
it was, indeed,
"the best of times" and "the worst of times.”
Searching for Alpha Centauri—though often hilarious—is a beautifully rendered
story of innocence, edification, intrigue, adventure, and
endurance.
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SEARCHING
FOR ALPHA CENTAURI
(formerly titled Easy Hearts)
OUTSELLS HEMINGWAY ON OPENING DAY!
(Okay, it
was Mariel Hemingway's Memoir, not Ernest's, but that still counts
doesn't it?) |
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(formerly titled Easy Hearts)
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Gary Spetz is also known as the artist-host of
three popular Public Television series: Painting
Wild Places, Watercolor Quest, and Color World.
He
is a signature member of the National Watercolor
Society and has been published in various art
magazines and books, including Watercolor,
Artists, Watercolor Magic, Searching
For The Artist Within and Art From The
Parks.
His artwork has been included in the
“Top 100” of the National Park Academy of
the Arts.
Gary
has hosted, wrote, filmed, and co-produced—with his
wife, Marlene—111 painting and travel episodes
for American Public Television (APT), the
National Educational Telecommunications Association
(NETA), MontanaPBS, and Janson Media.
The two of them reside in Northwest
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Copyright 2016 All Rights Reserved Sky Pond Press
PO Box 374, Lakeside, MT 59922
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"I never became
a cowboy or an astronaut as I once thought that I would.
But decades later I did buy a cowboy hat and some boots and move to Montana.
And on warm, clear summer nights,
I stare wistfully out into its big sky of stars and planets.
It still makes me wonder—
just like it did when I was a kid gazing up into the desert star-filled nights.
Then, like now, I looked up into infinity and I yearned for answers to big questions."
Searching
for Alpha Centauri by Gary
Spetz
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