Death of Francis Bacon (format de buzunar)

A bold and brilliant short work by the author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers and Lanny.

'A little masterpiece.' Irish Times

'Luminous.' Observer

'One of our most exciting writers.' The Spectator

Madrid. Unfinished. Man dying.

A great painter lies on his deathbed. In seven extraordinary written pictures, untethered from reality, Max Porter translates the explosive final workings of the artist's mind.

A writer of boundless energy and playfulness. -- Max Liu ― i newspaper

A feat of empathy, imagination and literary brio. ― Irish Independent

Very much a living thing . . . He is the supreme word alchemist. ― Sunday Independent

A very moving depiction of a mind in dissolution at the very edge of death. ― Scotland on Sunday

A mirror of Bacon's paintings: tragic, cruelly funny, shallow, repetitive, wild, controlled, grotesque. ― Daily Telegraph

It is the very embodiment of the underfoot, pulpy mash on the floor of the chaos of his studio . . . Exhilarating. ― The Tablet