How to Paint a Dead Man: Longlisted for the Booker Prize

How to Paint a Dead Man: Longlisted for the Booker Prize

by SarahHall (Author), Sarah Hall (Author)

Synopsis

A Booker-longlisted novel of art, absence, loss and passion, from Britain's most exciting contemporary writer. Moving between Italy and England, the lives of four people intertwine across half a century: a dying painter considers the sacrifices and losses that have made him an enigma; a blind girl tries to make sense of a world she can no longer see; a landscape artist finds himself trapped in dangerous terrain, and a young woman embarks on a dangerous affair of darkness and sexual abandon.

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Format: paperback
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published:

ISBN 10: 0571315631
ISBN 13: 9780571315635
Book Overview: How to Paint a Dead Man by Sarah Hall, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2009.

Author Bio
Sarah Hall was born in Cumbria in 1974. She is the prize-winning author of five novels - Haweswater, The Electric Michelangelo, The Carhullan Army, How to Paint a Dead Man and The Wolf Border - as well as The Beautiful Indifference, a collection of short stories. The first story in the collection, 'Butchers Perfume', was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award, a prize she won in 2013 with 'Mrs Fox'.