How to Paint a Dead Man

"Hall's writing manages to combine acute sensitivity and daring. ... Visceral and engaging. ... The emotional lives of her characters are skillfully realized in this bright weave of disparate voices-for whom art is at once a way of seeing and a way of life." --The Times (London)

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. With How to Paint a Dead Man, Sarah Hall, "one of the most significant and exciting of Britain's young novelists" (The Guardian), delivers "a maddeningly enticing read...an amazing feat of literary engineering" (The Independent on Sunday).

Author: Sarah Hall
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 09/08/2009
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.28w x 0.76d
ISBN: 9780061430459

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/27/2009 pg. 40
Kirkus Reviews 09/01/2009
BookPage 09/01/2009

About the Author
Hall, Sarah: -

Sarah Hall was born in Cumbria. She is the prizewinning author of six novels and three short story collections. She is a recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters E. M. Forster Award, Edge Hill Short Story Prize, among others, and the only person ever to win the BBC National Short Story Award twice.