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How to Paint a Dead Man

Sarah Hall

How to Paint a Dead Man

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From Sarah Hall comes the Harper Perennial paperback original novel How to Paint a Dead Man, a daringly imaginative tale in which multiple lives are woven together through the prism of a still life painting. Moving from Italy to England, spanning nearly half a century, and bringing together the lives of four disparate characters, How to Paint a Dead Man is Hall's fierce and brilliant study of art and its place in our lives. The lives of four individuals—a dying painter, a blind girl, a landscape artist, and an art curator—intertwine across nearly five decades in this luminous and searching novel of extraordinary power.

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Publisher
Faber
Year
2009
ISBN-13
9780571224890
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Art and creativityInterconnected lives across timeGrief and mortality

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