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The Death of Francis Bacon
- Author
- Max Porter
- Narrator
- Max Porter
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Publish Date
- 5 January 2021
- Run Time
- 49 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
Madrid.
Unfinished.
Man Dying.
Francis Bacon is on his deathbed. Max Porter reimagines his final dying fever dreams in a magisterial appreciation of one of the greatest artists of all time. It is as filthy, clever, luminescent, dark and wild as Bacon himself.
'Max Porter writes like no one else and it is impossible not to be swept along and astounded.'
* Daisy Johnson *
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Details
- Author
- Max Porter
- Narrator
- Max Porter
- Duration
- 49 minutes
- Release Date
- 5 January 2021
- ISBN
- 9780571366538
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Genre
- Fiction: literary and general non-genre
Synopsis
Madrid. Unfinished. Man Dying. Francis Bacon is on his deathbed. Max Porter reimagines his final dying fever dreams in a magisterial appreciation of one of the greatest artists of all time. It is as filthy, clever, luminescent, dark and wild as Bacon himself. 'Max Porter writes like no one else and it is impossible not to be swept along and astounded.' * Daisy Johnson *
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