How to Paint a Dead Man
Italy in the early 1960s: A dying painter considers the sacrifices and losses that have made him an enigma, both to strangers and those closest to him. He begins his last life painting, using the same objects he has painted obsessively for his entire career – a small group of bottles. In Cumbria thirty years later, a landscape artist – and admirer of the Italian recluse – finds himself trapped in the extreme terrain that has made him famous. And in present-day London, his daughter, an art curator struggling with the sudden loss of her twin brother while trying to curate an exhibition about the lives of the twentieth-century European masters, is drawn into a world of darkness and sexual abandon. Covering half a century, this is a luminous and searching story, and Hall's most accomplished work to date.
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'Beautifully realised ... Hall's prose is raw, surprising and often quite magnificent.' Author: The Sunday Telegraph
'Her most satisfying [novel] so far ... Hall's use of language is remarkably rich and intense.' Author: The Observer
'A memorable novel ... Hall's brush strokes delicately add layer upon layer to her characters.' Author: The Sunday Times
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'Her most satisfying [novel] so far ... Hall's use of language is remarkably rich and intense.' Author: The Observer
'A memorable novel ... Hall's brush strokes delicately add layer upon layer to her characters.' Author: The Sunday Times
A Booker-longlisted novel of art, absence, loss and passion, from Britain's most exciting contemporary writer.
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- PublisherBolinda/Audible Audio
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 1486258115
- ISBN 13 9781486258116
- BindingAudio CD
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