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Get Behind Me, Shadow -An Artist's Story
Get Behind Me, Shadow -An Artist's Story
Get Behind Me, Shadow -An Artist's Story
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Get Behind Me, Shadow -An Artist's Story

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Simon has often thought about leaving home and at 25 he realizes that he aught to be independant, but as his father controls the purse strings, he doesn't believe that he could earn sufficient money as a watercolour artist to pay the bills.
Life at home has never been easy for him, especially since he suspects his father of dealing dishonestly with people and that his lawyers have protected him from being sent to jail.
He has no real proof, but then one day the lawyers tell him that they want him to lie in court on his father's behalf by supplying him with an alibi. Simon rejects this idea outright, but the lawyers then persuade him that his dad has done a lot for him and that this is the least he can do to repay the debt.
From that moment on Simon's only thoughts are about how he can escape from the house without being detected. The opportunity to do this presents itself one afternoon when his father and his lawyers are eating lunch down at the pool. and drinking far too much wine.
So after taking note of this, Simon quickly packs a small travel bag and straps his easel to it and then quietly makes his way out of the front door. He then hails a passing taxi and goes to the airport, where he books a seat on the first available flight, which is to Paris. Once on board he decides that he might just be able to earn sufficient cash by painting portraits on the banks of the Seine, -along with all the other artists.
Things do not go quite as planned, until one day when a woman that has often watched him painting, tells him that she is his mother, whom he has not seen since he was four years old. And...

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Release dateNov 1, 2014
ISBN9781310359408
Get Behind Me, Shadow -An Artist's Story
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Joy Bassetti-Kruger

I began my library career at the Jhb. public library, and while I worked there part time, I also completed my Library Exams with the SALA. Then I was headhunted by Ekom, as I'd specialized in information retrieval and they needed someone to obtain current information on various projects for their engineers. Later I moved to Control Data, where I learned all about storing such information on their large computers. All the while, I also taught ballet, modern and Spanish, dancing in my spare time, as I'd trained as a dance teacher while still at school. After I married I ran two dancing studios for adults, where I also began to teach yoga and passive exercises. In my youth I danced for PACT for a while, but as I was still studying at the time, -I decided to give this up, although I continued to dance in various productions at the Civic Theater in Johannesburg. -Showboat, The Merry Widow, Guys and Dolls, to name a few. As I'd also joined two writing circles previously, I'd been writing all along, - mostly short stories. But then an opportunity came up for me to include English Literature and Creative Writing in my studies, so this is when my writing career really took off, even though I never published anything until recently, when I first uploaded stories on a local SA site,then Kindle, Kobo and now finally that I've cracked the 'meat-gringer," I've loaded some new stories on to Smashwords, which I think is a really wonderful site for writers, as it forces us to confront all the issues and make certain that everything is correct..

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