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).