Musings from a Small Island: Everything under the Sun

Peter Mayle meets John Berendt who runs into Anthony Bourdain in a bar ... Or if you prefer, A Year in Provence marries Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil and has an affair with Kitchen Confidential ... From professional artist and award-winning and bestselling author Sol Luckman comes this dazzlingly self-illustrated memoir that will have you alternately bursting with laughter and bursting at the seams with new perspectives on life, death and the curiouser and curiouser cosmos we call home. Luckman showcases both his literary and painterly talents in this one-of-kind story of an uncommon life on the heavily touristed shores of Hilton Head Island, a world-famous vacation destination nestled under the iconic Spanish moss of the fabled South Carolina Lowcountry. Combining fascinating autobiography, hilarious comedy and inspirational philosophy (to say nothing of a handful of excellent craft cocktail recipes), Musings from a Small Island is also a stunningly visual coffee table book any contemporary art aficionado would be proud to display. Seen from Luckman's charmingly eccentric perspective, Hilton Head comes alive in ways few places do in literature or art. Some quotables (of many) from this irreverent tell-all of a tale ... "Kicking an art addiction is a heck of a lot harder than going sober." "The next time you encounter a vegan chowing down on a freshly picked salad, understand that, from the salad's point of view, this is a crime against nature." "Around here people don't walk their dogs—dogs walk their people." "We have almost as many stingrays as we do tourists overcrowding these shores—and they're nearly as much of a nuisance." "Nothing, not an IRS audit, not even waterboarding, is worse than having country music forced on you." "As one might say about sex, even bad bodysurfing is good bodysurfing." "The next time you glimpse what looks like lunch from a Mexican street vendor being windblown toward you on the waves, swim the hell out of there—fast." "As I've aged, I've come to prefer the idea to the reality of human company." "I have nothing against cats, feral or otherwise, but I do tend to distrust people who care more about animals than people." "If I'm recovering from anything, I'm recovering from trying to recover from anything." "You have to take things with a grain of salt on a small island." NOTE: The beautiful, glossy, full-color PAPERBACK coffee table book version of Musings from a Small Islandis available through the author's website, Crow Rising Transformational Media.