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Love and Redemption in the Tropics,

Missing Gauguin

By: Adriana Bardolino

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Love and Redemption in the Tropics,

Missing Gauguin

By: Adriana Bardolino

Adriana Bardolino’s spicy memoir finds her out of her element, and missing her happy place. This new world is nothing like the magical tropical island of Maui she left behind. There, her life was filled with love, beauty, art, and romance. Everything goes topsy-turvy when a dear friend’s promise dissolves into the humid Miami air. When her new life in Florida turns out to be less than expected, she misses her island home. Life events send her through dark clouds and tumbling tides. Gauguin (Art) keeps Adriana stable through most storms, but eventually even Gauguin deserts her. She floats through the universe without a spacesuit, searching for creativity to return. She visits new lands in hopes of a renewed spark. Adult life forces her to grow up, to learn to forgive herself and others for past mistakes, but there are deep emotional losses along the way. Will Adriana find Gauguin?

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402

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ISBN 10

1663253706

ISBN 13

9781663253705

Confessions of a Hippie

Always Searching for Love

By: Adriana Bardolino

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Confessions of a Hippie

Always Searching for Love

By: Adriana Bardolino

Adriana is a young woman in her twenties navigating her way through the counterculture during the late sixties and early seventies. It’s a virtual roller-coaster ride of events and emotions that often blur the lines between her present life and her past. At the beginning, she is torn between her communal family and her nuclear family. She is swept up in the politics of the day—free speech, the peace movement, free love, and communal living. Psychedelics, music, books, mysticism, and the people she meets along the way open her mind to her relationship to nature and the universe itself, as well as her place in it. She questions everything about life. She chooses to see her relationships, loves, and life events in a very metaphysical way, sometimes even ethereally. Perhaps, if you lived through that era, you will see some of yourself in her. If not, you will learn something about the young people who did.

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321

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1663213607

ISBN 13

9781663213600

Love and Loathing in the islands

Searching for Gauguin

By: Adriana Bardolino

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Love and Loathing in the islands

Searching for Gauguin

By: Adriana Bardolino

In this sequel to the memoir Confessions of a Hippie, author Adriana Bardolino struggles to make her art and work synonymous. She falls in and out of love with masters of distance, while seeking true love. She still records her feelings and life events in journals, and she tucks precious photos away in albums as unsolved mysteries. Approaching thirty, Bardolino searches for something to replace the security of the old commune. She seeks therapy to unlock her self destructive habits. On a month’s vacation to Hawaii, she experiences an artistic rebirth and decides the island of Maui is where she belongs. A tragic turn of events in her life thwarts her dream. She is tossed into an abyss of longing and regret. Filled with love, art, romance, humor, sex, and history, mostly on a tropical island, Love and Loathing in the Islands shares Bardolino’s story from 1975 to 1981 when she faced a crossroads in her life. Will Adriana find Gauguin and true love?

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390

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iUniverse

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ISBN 10

166322823X

ISBN 13

9781663228239

Book's by Adriana Bardolino

Love and Redemption in the Tropics,

Love and Redemption in the Tropics,

Confessions of a Hippie

Confessions of a Hippie

Love and Loathing in the islands

Love and Loathing in the islands

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