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How to paint a dead man

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).

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  • "Moving from Italy to England, spanning nearly half a century, and bringing together the lives of four disparate characters, this novel offers a study of art and its place in human life."
  • "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)."@en
  • "La 4e de couverture indique : "Italy in the early 1960s: a dying painter considers the sacrifices and losses that have made him an enigma, both to strangers and those closest to him. He begins his last life painting, using the same objects he has painted obsessively for his entire career - a small group of bottles." "Not long afterwards, a blind girl tends his grave, trying to understand the world she can no longer see, and wondering whether the presence she feels nearby is the 'Bestia', the monstrous creature depicted in the altar of painting of her local church." "In Cumbria thirty years later, a landscape artist - who once wrote letters to the Italian recluse - finds himself trapped in the extreme terrain that has made him famous. And in present-day London, his daughter is struggling with the sudden loss of her twin brother while trying to curate an exhibition about the lives of the twentieth-century European masters, and finds herself drawn into a world of darkness and sexual abandon.""
  • "Italy in the early 1960s: a dying painter considers the sacrifices and losses that have made him an enigma, both to strangers and to those closest to him. He begins his last painting, using the same objects he has painted obsessively for his entire career - a small group of bottles. Not long afterwards, a blind girld tends his grave, trying to understand the world she can no longer see. Years later in Cumbria, a landscape artist finds himself trapped in the extreme terrain that has made him famous. And in present-day London, his daughter, struggling with the sudden loss of her twin brother, finds herself drawn into a world of darkness and sexual abandon. Covering half a century, Sarah Hall's fourth novel is a fierce and brilliant study of art and its place in our lives."@en
  • "Quatre récits s'articulent entre eux et prennent comme point de départ l'Ombrie, dans les années 1960. Un vieux peintre italien renommé tient un journal et se remémore sa correspondance avec Peter Caldicutt, un jeune étudiant anglais des Beaux-Arts, ainsi que les cours qu'il donnait à une jeune fille de son village, une jeune marchande de fleurs devenue aveugle.--[Memento]."

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  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
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  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
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  • "Si wang hua xiang"
  • "Si wang hua xiang"
  • "死亡画像"
  • "How to paint a dead man"
  • "How to paint a dead man"@en
  • "Comment peindre un homme mort"
  • "How to Paint a Dead Man"@en
  • "Portret van een dode man"

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