How to Paint a Dead Man

<p><strong>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. <em>--The Times </em>(London)</strong></p><p>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 <em>How to Paint a Dead Man </em>Sarah Hall one of the most significant and exciting of Britain's young novelists (<em>The Guardian</em>) delivers a maddeningly enticing read...an amazing feat of literary engineering (<em>The Independent on Sunday</em>).</p>