Book Review
- Title:
- How To Paint a Dead Man
- Author:
- Sarah Hall
- Genre:
- Contemporary Fiction
- Publishing Details:
- Faber, 2009
ISBN: 9780571224906
- Description:
- 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.
After his death a young blind girl remembers the influence he had on her and visits his grave.
In Cumbria 30 years later, a landscape artist - and admirer of the Italian recluse - finds himself literally trapped in the terrain that has made his art famous. In present-day London, his daughter, an art curator struggles with the sudden loss of her twin brother while trying to curate an exhibition about the lives of the twentieth-century European masters.
A complex novel, which interweaves 4 separate stories.
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