FRANCIS BACON

Separated into thematic and chronological sections the novel highlights the prevailing influences of Bacons life and times: his early autodidacticism and estrangement from his family, his struggles to make his way as a surrealist painter and his destruction of his early work. It traces his gradual success in postwar Europe, his powerful and often violent romantic relationships, his foray into portraiture, and his never-ending search for subject matter and meaning in his work. Alternating between full-page illustrations and smaller, ca...[Read more]