How to Paint a Dead Man: Booker Longlisted Literary Fiction – A Visceral British Novel of Art and Death
<p class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: black">From Sarah Hall, the acclaimed, award-winning author of <em>Daughters of the North </em><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic">and <em>The Electric Michelangelo</em></span> comes the Harper Perennial paperback original novel <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">How to Paint a Dead Man, </em>a daringly imaginative tale in which multiple lives are woven together through the prism of a still life painting. </span>Moving from <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:country-region w:st="on">Italy</st1:country-region> to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">England</st1:country-region></st1:place>, spanning nearly half a century, and bringing together the lives of four disparate characters, <em>How to Paint a Dead Man</em> is Hall’s fierce and brilliant study of art and its place in our lives.</p>