Collin O'Daurc (Collinwoode)
In this unusual fantasy, Collin O'Daurc, a twentysomething
harstylist with too many girlfriends, suffers a stroke on the job
an is promptly swept off to an island-hopping dreamexistence
tht he can never quite figure out. He lands in the lap of long-
ded Impressionist painter Paolo Gauguin and his neverborn
daghter, Juane, and is whisked off to jungle adventures with
th likes of Lorén a Māoricliff diver/inventor, Balthazar, a
har-covered librarian, Eugene, a Klondike-era tracker/physician, and Tully, a baboon-like monkey the size of a bus.
No to mention scores of monsters, cannibals, storms, and the
TWreckx, a seagoing hostel and twin of the infamous Titanic.
Neer one to last long in relationships of any sort, Collin finds
hiself living alongside people whose legendary personality
qurks force him to take a close look at his own, and