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A Good Morning America Book Club Pick
A captivating, bighearted, richly tapestried story of people brought together by love, war, art, flood, and the ghost of E. M. Forster, by the celebrated author of Tin Man.
Tuscany, 1944: As Allied troops advance and bombs sink villages, a young English soldier, Ulysses Temper, finds himself in the wine cellar of a deserted villa. There, he has a chance encounter with Evelyn Skinner, a middle-aged art historian intent on salvaging paintings from the ruins. In each other, Ulysses and Evelyn find a kindred spirit amidst the rubble of war-torn Italy, and paint a course of events that will shape Ulysses’s life for the next four decades.
Returning home to London, Ulysses reimmerses himself in his crew at The Stoat and Parot—a motley mix of pub crawlers and eccentrics—all the while carrying with him his Italian evocations. So, when an unexpected inheritance brings him back to where it all began, Ulysses knows better than to tempt fate: he must return to the Tuscan hills.
With beautiful prose, extraordinary tenderness, and bursts of humor and light, Still Life is a sweeping portrait of unforgettable individuals who come together to make a family, and a deeply drawn celebration of beauty and love in all its forms.
Publisher : G.P. Putnam’s Sons (September 13, 2022)
Language : English
Paperback : 480 pages
ISBN-10 : 0593330765
ISBN-13 : 978-0593330760
Item Weight : 13.3 ounces
Dimensions : 5.5 x 1 x 8.25 inches
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Customers find the theme delightful, interesting, and full of love. They also describe the storyline as delightful, believable, and likeable. Customers describe the writing style as sweet, well-developed, and captivates with language. They find the characters delightful. However, some customers feel the lack of quotation marks and inconsistent use of commas make the book hard to read and boring.
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