Rate this book

Portret Van Een Dode Man (2010)

by Sarah Hall(Favorite Author)

3.59 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

9041414959 (ISBN13: 9789041414953)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Anthos

review 1: I feel bad for this because my life has been so hectic and I have been so distractednthat I just wasnt able to give it the focus that it needed to really appreaciate it. The writing was good, at times even great. I just know that I missed lots of little things about how the four people's lives intertwined and I wasnt able to fully savor it. Maybe someday I will read this one again when I have time to really get into it. For now, I need to stick with light reading!
review 2: I struggled with the last two books I read, so I really needed a book that would absorb me. Scanning the shelf of "waiting to be read" books I saw this. The author's name looked familiar and when I realised she had written The Electric Michaelangelo I thought this was a good bet.I was comp... moreletely absorbed, read it over the Bank Holiday weekend and it has left me with lots to think about. It brings together four different stories over a period of about 40 years, all involving artists in one way of another. I know that not everyone likes books which have linked and intertwined narratives, and move from one to another in each chapter; I do like them generally and this one is quite straightforward, it is about 4 different people's views on art, on life and on loss and the links are quite straightforward, there are no clever-clever links or devices.As you read about an Italian artist, discredited by the Communists, a 1960s hippy UK artist, the UK artist's photographer daughter and the blind teenage pupil of the Italian artist, you get a sense of how art can be created, how many different approaches to it there can be. You also see how the will to live and the urge to create ate very closely linked.I found the end of Annette's story slightly unsatisfying but that didn't spoil it for me. It would make a great book group book. If anyone else out there can tell me who Annette's attacker was (I know she recognised him but I couldn't work out who it was), or if anyone has views on why Peter didn't tell Lydia about Raymie, and what Dr Dixon was doing to Suzie, then please, let's get a discussion going. less

Download links for: Portret van een dode man

Advertising