How to Paint a Dead Man

"e;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."e; -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, "e;one of the most significant and exciting of Britain's young novelists"e; (The Guardian), delivers "e;a maddeningly enticing read...an amazing feat of literary engineering"e; (The Independent on Sunday).