The Death of Francis Bacon by Porter, Max

The Death of Francis Bacon (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780771096372)

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Format: Hardcover
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The Death of Francis Bacon by Porter, Max

The Death of Francis Bacon

$15.95
The Death of Francis Bacon by Porter, Max

The Death of Francis Bacon

$15.95
Format: Hardcover
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Madrid. Unfinished. Man dying.

A great painter lies on his deathbed, synapses firing, writhing and reveling in pleasure and pain as a lifetime of chaotic and grotesque sense memories wash over and envelop him.

In this bold and brilliant short work of experimental fiction by the author of Grief Is the Thing with Feathers and Lanny, Max Porter inhabits Francis Bacon in his final moments, translating into seven extraordinary written pictures the explosive final workings of the artist's mind. Writing as painting rather than about painting, Porter lets the images he conjures speak for themselves as they take their revenge on the subject who wielded them in life.

The result is more than a biography: The Death of Francis Bacon is a physical, emotional, historical, sexual, and political bombardment--the measure of a man creative and compromised, erotic and masochistic, inexplicable and inspired.

Author: Max Porter
ISBN-10: 0771096372
ISBN-13: 9780771096372
Publisher: Strange Light
Language: English
Published: 09/14/2021
Pages: 80
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 7.10h x 4.70w x 0.60d
By Max Porter
By Max Porter
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Max Porter is the author of Lanny, longlisted for the Booker Prize, and Grief Is the Thing with Feathers, winner of the International Dylan Thomas Prize and shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Goldsmiths Prize. He is the recipient of the Sunday Times/Peter, Fraser + Dunlop Young Writer of the Year award.

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