{"product_id":"the-death-of-francis-bacon-isbn-9780771096372","title":"The Death of Francis Bacon","description":"\u003cb\u003eMadrid. Unfinished. Man dying.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this bold and brilliant short work of experimental fiction by the author of \u003ci\u003eGrief Is the Thing with Feathers\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLanny,\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eas\u003c\/i\u003e painting rather than \u003ci\u003eabout\u003c\/i\u003e painting, Porter lets the images he conjures speak for themselves as they take their revenge on the subject who wielded them in life. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe result is more than a biography: \u003ci\u003eThe Death of Francis Bacon\u003c\/i\u003e is a physical, emotional, historical, sexual, and political bombardment--the measure of a man creative and compromised, erotic and masochistic, inexplicable and inspired.“Porter blends verse and prose to create books that aren’t quite poems, but aren’t quite novels in the traditional sense, either.[…]Amid the book’s gloom, Porter [finds] some room for levity in the darkness, breaking up the mood with playful turns of phrase[…]” ―\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The words [Max Porter writes] are absolutely beautiful to say. Like all good writing, the more you say them, the more they reveal.”—\u003cb\u003eCillian Murphy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Porter is one of our most exciting writers. He dares to experiment and that means both the flare of mercury and the burnt crucible. Some sections enthral, others alienate. Like its subject, The Death of Francis Bacon is tricky, wicked and wonderfully weird.\" ― \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eSpectator\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A feat of empathy, imagination and literary brio. Expansive and succinct, wild and controlled.\" ― \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eIrish Independent\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A luminous novelette ... that seeks to elide the boundary between literature and visual art.\" ― \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eObserver\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Porter's third book is very much a living thing, a thing that requires more than one reading ... He is the supreme word alchemist.\" ― \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eSunday Independent, Ireland\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A miniature masterpiece.\" ― \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A very moving depiction of a mind in dissolution at the very edge of death ... a powerful stiletto of a book.\" ―\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e Scotland on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A little masterpiece[...]painting in words the \"deeply ordered chaos\" Bacon saw all about him.\" ― \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"One of our most lyrical novelists brings his rich facility for language and psychological insight to the final hours of the great painter Francis Bacon, in this majestic tour de force.\" ― \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eWaterstones, Best Fiction Books to Look Forward to in 2021\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eMax Porter is the author of \u003ci\u003eLanny\u003c\/i\u003e, longlisted for the Booker Prize, and \u003ci\u003eGrief Is the Thing with Feathers\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.","brand":"Strange Light","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301768679653,"sku":"NP9780771096372","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780771096372.jpg?v=1767738960","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-death-of-francis-bacon-isbn-9780771096372","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}