How to Paint a Dead Man: A Novel

“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).