ARGONAUT BOOKS

A great painter lies on his deathbed. In a burst of literary brilliance, Max Porter translates into seven written pictures the explosive final workings of the artist's mind. Reviews A writer of boundless energy and playfulness.i newspaper - Max LiuA feat of empathy, imagination and literary brio.Irish IndependentVery much a living thing . . . He is the supreme word alchemist.Sunday IndependentA very moving depiction of a mind in dissolution at the very edge of death.Scotland on SundayA mirror of Bacon's paintings: tragic, cruelly funny, shallow, repetitive, wild, control...Read More