The title comes from a London Times review of the author's previous novel, whose protagonist was said to be the kind of man so preoccupied by looking at the sky that he would miss the item right under his feet.
The title comes from a London Times review of the author's previous novel, whose protagonist was said to be the kind of man so preoccupied by looking at the sky that he would miss the item right under his feet. It tells of an unnamed narrator's Marlowe-esque search for Charles Strickland, a London stockbrocker who one day quit his job and left his family, because, he said, "I want to paint." FTP name the 1919 novel based on the life of Paul Gauguin, by Somerset Maugham.
The title comes from a London Times review of the author's previous novel, whose protagonist was said to be the kind of man so preoccupied by looking at the sky that he would miss the item right under his feet.
The {Moon and Sixpence}